self-improver
noun
self-im·prov·er
ˌself-im-ˈprü-vər 
plural self-improvers
: a person who engages in self-improvement
I love women's magazines that offer five-step solutions to all of life's problems. … As a veteran self-improver, I find articles like these almost irresistible.—
Kate Hilton
Kate HiltonThe best feature story of the weekend was a Wall Street Journal profile of Max Deutsch, 24, a San Francisco entrepreneur and serial self-improver who sets improbable goals (like learning Hebrew, solving a Rubik's Cube in 17 seconds, memorizing a deck of cards in two minutes, developing perfect pitch), gives himself a very short period (about a month) to attain them and, by and large, succeeds.—James Warren
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Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington.
—John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
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John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
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