Tim Pychyl, for example, struggled in his younger days with procrastination. Neil Fiore observed how he and his fellow students had trouble writing essays, leaving them to the last minute. Self-helpers, whether they’re psychologists, academics, entrepreneurs, journalists or otherwise, tend to get into areas they struggled in and they wanted to fix.
The psychologists, academic researchers and people who have clients they help to overcome their own issues have broader perspectives about what people struggle with, so they fixate less on their own struggle and can offer more tactics to help people, some of which might not have helped themselves but might help others.