Why do you guys say that learning and books in general are useless? (STRAWMAN)

[Tubs]

<div class="bbWrapper">Damn someone actually managed to make a worse thread than the &#039;over 35&#039; thread.</div>

 

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[Seamster]

<div class="bbWrapper">I read some books about creating an app. My idea <u>will</u> be executed and used by millions. However, making a popular app is so much work--which I learned in the books--that the books made me not take action. <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-frown.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":frown:" title="Frown :frown:" data-shortname=":frown:" /></div>

 

[Cyberdeth]

<div class="bbWrapper">Knowledge isn&#039;t power, it&#039;s potential power. It only becomes powerful when you actually use the knowledge that you&#039;ve read. Over 90% of billionaires in the world reads <a href="https://medium.com/@samklemens/the-reading-habits-of-10-millionaires-and-billionaires-d2b2372143c8" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">one or more books every week</a>.</div>

 

[Dan_Cardone]

<div class="bbWrapper">Wanted to chime in again...<br /> <br /> There are some books I&#039;ve read where I learned absolutely nothing new but had amazing ideas sparked from them.<br /> <br /> Sometimes a book will just have information arranged in such a way that my brain picks up on it and connects it to other stuff floating around in the back of my mind and it ignites a spark of creativity and gives me great ideas that often goes on to make me a lot of money.<br /> <br /> The value of reading doesn&#039;t always just come from the knowledge in those books but often the real value is in the ideas those books give you.</div>

 

[Intax]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 64696" data-quote="Zach123" data-source="post: 815507" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=815507" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-815507">Zach123 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Everywhere I look on this forum you people always make it seem like there is no reason to learn anything about business and just get started, but what if I don&#039;t know anything about business at all? and don&#039;t know the first thing about getting started, where to start, how to start and what to start. saying &quot;just get started&quot; is as dumb as a therapist saying to a depressed person &quot;just be happy&quot;.... okay HOW?? How am I supposed to get started not knowing anything? where all of you just born knowing everything about business? I cannot grasp the idea on this forum of &quot;learning is completely useless&quot; why not learn from other people and the knowledge they got from there own experience to help you on your journey along with learning from your own mistakes and experiences? I feel like it would be so much more beneficial for you, but apparently I&#039;m wrong? How do you guys even live your life or survive without reading books? My life was absolutely horrible and unbearable until I started getting into reading, using books I have been able to completely turn my life around and make it so much better, without them I wouldn&#039;t be here so I am a little biased when it comes to the discussion of &quot;books are useless&quot;. I just don&#039;t get it if someone wants to fill me in. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote> Start with unscripted if you have no clue what to do. The book should give you enough advice on taking action.<br /> <br /> Also there are an incredible amount of actionable gold posts to start. <br /> <br /> The point is not to avoid reading. The point is to not get distracted by reading. Just read and immediately act on it.</div>