If you think that social networks and self-development are incompatible things, then you want to think so. I am sure that on Vkontakte, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks there are many groups aimed at development and education. Now I will try to prove this.
In this article, I have collected 35 of the best groups, communities and publics on social networks for self-development. Of these, there are both popular ones with more than 3,000,000 subscribers, and those who do not have 100,000. But this does not negate the benefits for visitors.
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PS The article is updated every month.
Groups for self-development
Self-development
Subject:
Work on yourself to achieve success in various areas
Number of subscribers:
780 000 +
In this public page with the simple name “Self-Development” you will find useful collections, posts with a humorous message, articles and videos about personal development.
Psychology
Subject:
About psychology in simple words
Number of subscribers:
1 400 000 +
If you want to know what human psychology means and how our brain behaves in various situations, then subscribe to this community.
VKontakte, Telegram
LIBERTY | PEOPLE
Subject:
User-generated content about the system around us
Number of subscribers:
416 000 +
The public post posts that personally make me think, and sometimes look at things from a new perspective.
As they say in the description of the group: “If you subscribe, you will enter wonderland.”
VKontakte, Telegram
Psychology|Psychology
Subject:
All about psychology
Number of subscribers:
2 100 000 +
In “Psychology” posts you can find a discussion of the topics of our feelings, interests, desires, relationships with others, concern for health, well-being, beauty and much more.
Lifehacks
Subject:
Interesting and educational stories from subscribers
Number of subscribers:
404 000 +
Unlike other groups, the content in the Lifehacks community does not feature high-quality posts or flashy pictures. Various life stories are published here. Each subscriber can share their own experience and give instructive advice to an audience of half a million.
Right Thoughts
Subject:
Statements by outstanding thinkers of mankind
Number of subscribers:
2 500 000
There have been many outstanding personalities in the world, from Muhammad Ali to Steve Jobs. They all wanted to share their knowledge and experience with humanity. It just so happened that their time on earth ended, but the quotes and thoughts they expressed remained to this day.
VKontakte, Instagram, Telegram
+ 1 smart thought
Subject:
About life values, success, etc.
Number of subscribers:
2 300 000 +
Description
By subscribing to this public, every day you will learn about one smart thought that carries power and deep meaning. In this way, you will definitely make social networks a place for development.
ISchool
Subject:
A treasure trove of materials for self-development
Number of subscribers:
328 000 +
Do you want to remember 2 or even 3 times more? Or maybe you want to get rid of absent-mindedness and instill healthy habits? “ISchool” will help you with all this, because just one post may contain something that will change your life.
Interesting planet
Subject:
Content for tourists, travelers and simply for those who love the beauty of nature
Number of subscribers:
3 300 000 +
Join 3 million travelers and enjoy the beauty of the planet in the posts and articles that this public offers.
VKontakte, Facebook
Another beauty
Subject:
All manifestations of human, natural and unearthly beauty
Number of subscribers:
1 000 000 +
“Another Beauty” is a public page with interesting and exciting collections of photographs. Their motto: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!”
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram
Sigmund Freud
What is the most famous psychologist you know? I think the answer is obvious. We invite you to join this community, which is dedicated to the legendary Sigmund Freud: vk.com/public25013143 Surely all psychologists in VKontakte have long subscribed to updates of this public. In total there are more than 65 thousand participants. And even despite the fact that comments on posts are closed, and there is essentially no one to chat with here, staying in the community is very interesting thanks to the posts on the wall. It is clear that they are chosen wisely. By the way, millionaire Gennady Balashov on VKontakte, about whom we have already written on our website, quite often quotes Freud.
Communities for self-education
PostScience
Subject:
Everything you wanted to know but didn't know who to ask
Number of subscribers:
479 000 +
Interesting information about science and more. For example, “Does higher education help you find a job?” or “Pornography as a Tool of Social Criticism.”
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram
Sputnik and Pogrom
Subject:
News and articles about politics, culture and history
Number of subscribers:
112 000 +
“Sputnik and Pogrom” is an online media that covers news in the fields of politics, culture and history. The admins themselves believe that their community is intended only for smart Russians.
VKontakte, Telegram
Experimenter | The science
Subject:
Current news from the world of science and technology
Number of subscribers:
1 600 000 +
Description
The goal of this community is to encourage readers to self-development and improvement by telling stories about the possibilities of science.
Tongue glasar
Subject:
Everything important and unimportant about the Russian language
Number of subscribers:
30 000 +
No educational or attractive pictures with the meanings of words. No rhymes to remember the correct accent. Only serious content about the secrets of the great and powerful language.
VKontakte, Facebook, Telegram
english yo
Subject:
Fun learning English
Number of subscribers:
215 000 +
Description
Author's texts, colloquial vocabulary, analysis of phrases from films and TV series. Lots of entertaining yet educational posts.
VKontakte, Instagram, Telegram
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Learning languages: English, French, German
Subject:
Useful information about different languages of the world
Number of subscribers:
910 000 +
The community is perfect for beginning polyglots. It contains a lot of materials for learning languages:
- Textbooks in PDF format;
- Dictionaries;
- Articles;
- Infographics;
- Courses.
VKontakte, Facebook
Skyeng
Subject:
Learning English on Skype
Number of subscribers:
159 000 +
Skyeng is the largest online English school in Europe. Its official community publishes useful tips for learning English, the meaning of verbs, announcements of new courses and much more.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Skillbox
Subject:
Training in new and in-demand professions
Number of subscribers:
262 000 +
“Skillbox” is an educational platform that provides us with comprehensive programs for training new and in-demand professions. If you subscribe to their group on social networks, you will receive additional information on vocational education.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram
GeekBrains
Subject:
Professional development and upgrade of soft skills
Number of subscribers:
233 000 +
This is another educational platform for vocational education. Get more information about various Internet areas on their social networks.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram
Sometimes the opinions of others are too important to us
People need H. Tajfel, MG Billig, RP Bundy et al. Social categorization and intergroup behavior / European journal of social psychology to realize a sense of identity - belonging to a group. The opinion of those around us can be so important that we are ready to change our behavior and worldview. Therefore, for example, adolescents can L. J. Knoll, L. Magis-Weinberg, M. Speekenbrink et al. Social influence on risk perception during adolescence / Psychological science start drinking alcohol or smoking in order to become part of a certain company.
However, adults are also susceptible V. Klucharev, K. Hytönen, M. Rijpkema et al. Reinforcement learning signal predicts social conformity / Neuron to this phenomenon called conformity. People in general often trust the “opinion of the crowd.” In addition, we are often pressured by social norms in society. For example, a magnificent wedding may not be the dream of the newlyweds, but a tribute to tradition and an ostentatious ritual for relatives. Conformity not only influences our actions, but also makes us vulnerable to manipulation.
What to do about it
Try to develop your ability to say no. Try not to respond to other people's requests and admonitions right away. First think about whose interests they concern. Answer for yourself whether this matter is worth your time and effort, and whether you even need it.
Publications about a healthy lifestyle
Sports
Subject:
Healthy lifestyle
Number of subscribers:
3 000 000 +
The best sports posts, training programs, motivation, nutrition programs and much more in one place.
WORKOUT
Subject:
Training and motivation
Number of subscribers:
2 300 000 +
The best community for those who want to be in better sports shape. If you intend to change your body using only your own weight, the link to subscribe is below.
SPORT & FITNESS
Subject:
Territory of anabolism
Number of subscribers:
1 000 000 +
Training programs for all muscle groups, inspiring results for subscribers, video lessons and much more in this blog.
0% fat
Subject:
Proper and healthy nutrition
Number of subscribers:
3 900 000 +
Posts about proper nutrition and recipes for weight loss. Lose weight together and share your experience in a group.
We are often biased in our assessments of other people
How a person sees people, and how he thinks they see him, largely determines his behavior and decisions. For example, if we find ourselves in a competitive environment, we can M. Sheriff. Superordinate Goals in the Reduction of Intergroup Conflict / American Journal of Sociology begin to treat your rivals with disdain, although this would not happen outside the competition.
We also easily extend one positive quality to a person’s entire personality. So, attractive people often seem like SN Talamas, KI Mayor, DI Perrett. Blinded by beauty: Attractiveness bias and accurate perceptions of academic performance / PLoS ONE we are kind, smart and funny. This is called the halo effect.
It also works in the opposite direction. A curious experiment was conducted by Carlsberg as part of an advertising campaign. Couples were asked to enter a crowded cinema, in which out of 150 seats, 148 were occupied by very stern-looking bikers. Most did not dare to stay for the session because of stereotypes: those sitting in the hall seemed to them to be criminals and rowdies.
What to do about it
It helps to get rid of prejudices by communicating with people outside your usual circle of acquaintances. For example, to reconcile with rivals, M. Sheriff is enough. Superordinate Goals in the Reduction of Intergroup Conflict / American Journal of Sociology work together on a task. A common goal helps to see the “other” as a person.
Financial literacy
Kapital
Subject:
Raising financial awareness
Number of subscribers:
428 000 +
Economics, personal finance, business, real estate, investments. All this intersects and is united in the posts of this public.
Smart money
Subject:
Business magazine
Number of subscribers:
1 900 000 +
The community unites almost 2 million people who want to achieve financial freedom and success.
On the pages of the group you will find a charge of motivation, secrets of successful people and rules of financial literacy.
Forbes
Subject:
Latest news from the world of business and investment
Number of subscribers:
966 000 +
Forbes writes about stories of success and failure of entrepreneurs, conducts research on new ideas for business and investment, and also publishes ratings. In addition to the official website, information can be found on their social networks.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
We often ignore people who need our help.
The influence of society can also manifest itself in unobvious things. For example, the more people who see that someone needs to be helped, the less B. Latane, J. M. Darley. Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology each will feel personally responsible for helping. This is called the bystander effect. Most often, examples are given of cases where many people witnessed a crime, but none of them contacted the police or tried to help the victim.
What to do about it
Knowing that the effect exists in itself greatly helps to overcome it. It is also important to understand MK Schweinfurth, J. Call. Reciprocity: Different behavioral strategies, cognitive mechanisms and psychological processes / Learning & Behavior that you are really able to help someone. And for this it is not at all necessary to be able to save drowning people or perform cardiac massage.
For lovers of literature and films
Masterpieces of Literature
Subject:
A real treasure for film lovers
Number of subscribers:
2 000 000 +
A cozy corner where you can take a break from disturbing news, choose a suitable book, and get acquainted with quotes from world bestsellers.
Books
Subject:
All about the world of books
Number of subscribers:
1 900 000 +
This community publishes information about new products in the world of literature, interesting materials about writers and their works, and announcements of literary events.
Educational magazine with taste
Subject:
Various materials for self-development
Number of subscribers:
1 000 000 +
Collections of books and films on self-development.
Historical films
Subject:
Movies TV series
Number of subscribers:
298 000 +
This is a club for lovers of the artistic and historical film industry.
Litres
Subject:
Online library with e-books
Number of subscribers:
163 000 +
Description
If reading is your passion, then the liters community is for you. It tells about the release of literary novelties and publishes thematic selections of books.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
A formal reason is enough for us to do terrible things.
The experiments of S. Milgram make us think about how quickly a person is ready to turn into a monster. Behavioral study of obedience / The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology by American social psychologist Stanley Milgram. In them, subjects were asked to shock a person for incorrect answers to questions and gradually increase the voltage. In fact, the tortured person was a fake actor and did not receive electricity, which the test subjects did not know.
As a result, 65% of participants reached the highest level of tension. If the current were real, it could cause serious harm to health. At the same time, people were more willing to shock another person in the presence of an experimenter who introduced himself as a professor. Trust in assistants was much lower. That is, the higher the formal authority of the orderer, the more willingly his commands will be carried out, even if they contradict the norms of ethics and morality.
In such situations, people often make excuses by saying that they were simply following instructions EA Caspar, JF Christensen, A. Cleeremans et al. Coercion changes the sense of agency in the human brain / Current Biology, thus transferring responsibility for what is done to others.
What to do about it
Following orders or instructions does not excuse dangerous behavior. For example, Nazi criminals are still being sought and tried to this day. So before you do anything that is expected of you, think about J. Shaw. Psychology of evil, you would do this of your own free will. Accept the fact that the responsibility for all your actions lies with you and no one else.
Internet Marketing and Business
TexTerra
Subject:
Unique materials about all areas of internet marketing
Number of subscribers:
37 000 +
Internet agency "Texterra" has the most visited blog on Internet marketing in RuNet. And in this community they publish a huge number of practical recommendations and cases in the same area.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram
Internet marketing from A to Z
Subject:
All about internet marketing
Number of subscribers:
197 000 +
Active discussions of the latest news in Internet marketing and analysis of subscriber questions. No water – just practical information.
Russian marketing
Subject:
In simple words about Internet marketing
Number of subscribers:
73 000 +
News, useful materials and selections for marketers, SMM specialists and more.
VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram
Psychology of relationships
Why is this public first on our list? This is no coincidence. This community is the largest! It already has more than four and a half million people. There are probably many of your friends among them. And really, what can a person worry about more than relationships with other people? And here is the address: vk.com/psy.people But, where there is a crowd, the truth cannot be found. Why do we say this? Because there is no smell of psychology here. Alas, only the name is connected with psychology. Here you will find vanilla quotes, cute photos and games in discussions. However, if you like this, feel free to join. Next, we will try to consider communities that are associated with real psychology.
The appearance of a subject is accompanied, accordingly, by the emergence of a scientific theory.
The first theory of personality I would include the work of such an author as William James , a very important American philosopher and psychologist.
He was also the first to put forward such a concept as the human self , and psychoanalysis . He identified three types of human self - physical, social and spiritual. Since the Self is what a person identifies himself with, accordingly, three worlds arise here - the physical world, the social world and the world of spiritual values, as three components of the human Self.
The second name that I would note is a psychologist who, unfortunately, is not often mentioned undeservedly and this was the German psychologist William Stern. William Stern made a very great contribution to various areas of psychology, including practical psychology. He created one of the world's first institutes of practical psychology, Stern finally formulated the concept of IQ “intelligence quotient,” and he also introduced the concept of differential psychology. He made a huge contribution to the development of child psychology. That is, his contribution is multifaceted. But in this case I am interested in a slightly different context. Stern called for the creation of such a broad movement as personalism . It is known that in Latin persona is a person . Accordingly, in the same form the word entered other European languages. He came up with the idea of creating such a personalism movement. What does this movement mean? Stern realizing that by the beginning of the 20th century psychology had become fragmented. I tried to draw the attention of psychologists to the following phenomenon, so that every psychologist does not study someone studying perception, someone studying memory, someone thinking, someone other mental processes. Whatever every psychologist studies, one must understand that the mental phenomenon being studied turns out to be one of the diverse creations of a single, integral personality.
Whatever phenomenon we study in our laboratory, it is important to understand that it does not exist on its own, it is one of the creations of the entire psyche.
The category of personality was placed at the forefront, and all other psychological concepts were derived from it. In this case, the fragmentation of psychology, he believed, could possibly be overcome. Stern's personalism never became a theory of personality, despite all his efforts and merits.
The first specific psychological theory of personality was psychoanalysis.
But personality is not the exclusive property of psychology, no matter how zealously psychologists wanted to privatize it and make it exclusively their property. Nevertheless, personality is a common object for different sciences, and each of these sciences highlights its own subject in personality. How does each science single out its subject in this large object called personality? Very simple. Isolating an object from an object, cutting out such a narrow object into a large object is always determined by the goal, that is, by what I want to reveal, by what I want to receive. It is clear that each science has its own goals and, in accordance with them, each science in this general object carves out its own narrow sector, its own subject.
Let me give you an example: are historical sciences interested in personality? Yes, of course, but they are not interested in everything. Since the historian not only describes the facts of the past, but like any science, history tries to explain the process of historical development and identify its patterns. In the process of identifying the driving forces of historical development, historians turn to specific individuals.
On the one hand, we understand that there are probably objective laws of social development. These laws, for example, lead to a change in socio-economic formations to revolutions or evolutionary development.
These are objective laws of the development of society, but very specific historical events are created by the hands of living, specific people, and we can always name their names. Lenin and the Bolsheviks staged the October Revolution, seized power first in Petrograd, and then began to seize it in the rest of the cities of Russia. It was Lenin who arranged everything. Then a question arises for the historian, but it is interesting to know to what extent different historical events are caused by the action of general objective laws of history? Are these objective laws of history operating through the hands of specific people? Nothing depends on a specific person; there are objective laws of history and specific people are simply their executors. Or are these historical events to some extent determined by the actions of a particular person? Because it was Lenin, it was he who chose such a good moment, because he had certain personality traits? This problem is what historians call the role of personality in history.
Essentially the historian is trying to answer the question. To what extent are historical events determined by the actions of a particular person? To what extent is a person not free to influence the objective course of history? Sociologists are also interested in personality in their own way, and even in sociology itself there is such a branch or section - this is the sociology of personality. And sociologists are interested in personality exclusively as an element in various social processes, that is, in various forms of unification of people. From this point of view, the personality is interesting to them; everything else does not affect the interests of the sociologist.
