I recently spoke to a guy from here who reached out to me, said he's been on the forums for 7 years, and read over 900 self-help and business books, and yet can't get anywhere. Studied NLP, hypnosis, Tony Robbins, therapy, Michael Singer, etc. etc. and yet he still has a job, and has never been able to get any side hustle off the ground.
And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!
Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.
I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.
This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.
If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF , you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...
There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.
If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.
You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?
Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.
Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!
And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!
Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.
I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.
This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.
If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF , you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...
There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.
If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.
You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?
Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.
Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!
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