While this is true, what’s more important is why Mike has this addiction. I have always had a similar addiction, now it’s much lessened than it used to be. But when I was a teen and in my early 20s I devoured thousands of books (and no, that’s not an exageration contrary to what you think lol).You've got an addiction that's holding you back from achieving your goals
The trouble with this addiction is that when you have it, you are CONVINCED that getting the right information is good and will help you. Mike, deep down, is convinced of this, otherwise he wouldn’t be doing it.
He is convinced that an interaction with someone, a book, a podcast, could be THAT ONE THING that changes his life.
So this conviction comes from somewhere, it’s not random. Why is it there? What role does it play for him?
And this is very individual but it could be many different things:
• Fear of failure: searching for an answer becomes a way to permanently avoid failure by never trying (this is the one most psychologists would zero-in on. Personally though this wasn’t applicable to me, which isn’t to say it’s not applicable to Mike.
• Low self-esteem: “I don’t deserve to be successful, therefore I need someone else’s advice”
• Low self-confidence: “I can’t do it, I’m not good enough, therefore I need help from those who are better than me”
• Lack of Wisdom: “I don’t know how to think, therefore I need help”
• Intellectual boredom: “yeah, I can be successful, but where’s the challenge if I figured it out? What was really exciting was finding the answer, implementing it is bleh. So let me search for a different answer”
Bottom line, you can’t overcome an addiction if you don’t figure out why it’s so appealing to you to start with.
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