Why Self improvement?
Are efforts required?
Aren't we already evolving? Yes, we are but we need to improve fast. Everybody is not evolving at the same pace. Let us learn from others who are ahead us or at least can help us whereever they may be.
You are very correct when you say in this new world-order it is almost impossible to find time-tested solutions for problems that are new in origin. However, we disagree. Only presentation, look and feel is changed but nothing is new. Do you think still there is something humans haven't explored during this long journey of eveolution.
We discovered and then lost.
We said that we invented and again lost... many things.
We know many things but miss out so often. For example: Health. Then we should ask ourselves do we really know? That we would all like to believe.