This is your sign to give up reading: Stop the self-help books and help yourself!
“The best 3 books to completely transform your life. Read this book for complete financial freedom. Save your relationship by reading this book!”
How many self-help books are we going to painfully torture ourselves with before a million pounds magically ends up in our bank? Do the millions of regenerated, enlightened David Goggins’ only come out at 4 am to swim in lakes?
Or are we too busy reading about getting better that we never end up actually doing so? It’s a dangerous wormhole that millions pay the privilege to jump right into.
What if I told you that reading these ultra-enlightening improvement books are the blinkers that keep you running straight in the rat race to mediocrity.
How would you feel if I told you that the motivation and thought of accomplishment gained from reading books releases the same chemicals as actually achieving your goals. Manipulating your brain to return to the pages for another hit of the dopamine joint.
After you finally sober from the high, what have you accomplished?
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BORING = GOOD??
When finishing a movie, tv series, podcast, or documentary there we are left wanting more. Yet the completion of a book gives us a sense of accomplishment that makes us feel fulfilled. But our efforts have yielded no results.
It seems as though the ‘manisphere’ has banished masturbation for this exact reason. We get all the good happy feelings without the effort of doing. Yet they encourage books.
By no means do I intend to condemn books. I believe there is and always will be a use for them. Going as far as to promote and highlight them as a low-cost tool to achieve success here.
I encourage books as a form of meditation, the kind that provokes ideas, thoughts and challenges you. Or as a way to relax and escape from the fast-paced, attention-seeking world of colourful screens and loud distractions. Particularly helpful when trying to improve sleep.
It should not be misconstrued with the act of doing. The most powerful act of all for true self-improvement.
LIFT THE WEIGHT.
You cannot read a book about bodybuilding and become Ronnie Coleman. You may believe that it will help you along your journey until you begin this adventure.
Where you discover that you are not Ronnie Coleman and that you are the writer of your own story. With different characters. Different mountains to climb. Unique accomplishments. Great results.
Not one single person has copied a Michael Jordan documentary play for play and become the greatest basketball player ever. So why would that be possible with words on a page?
STOP reading, Start writing!
I wrote my first few words as a writer when resolving my terrible communication issues. After attempting to do so by reading a book I reached the realisation that they could only be improved through actually speaking to others. See how it went here.
There are other tools that should be utilised for self-improvement. My favourite of these is podcasts. Long-form content where experienced individuals demonstrate the results of the power of doing. Compiling the useful information that has been taken from experiences such as books and highlighting the good use they have put it to.
The Huberman Labs podcast is a great example of this and recommend to all in the search for a better day-to-day life and long-term success. Providing science-based tools that you can implement within your life. Some of which I have put to the test. See here for the tools that you should implement in your life
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
Only because you give the ugly guy a chance doesn’t mean he ain’t gonna cheat. He still cheats. Being boring does not make books more effective. And effectively achieve the same result as bingeing breaking bad for the fourth time. NOTHING.
Unless you do something about it. That is why I provide the METHODS to achieve ultimate success. As you can implement methods to achieve measurable results.
You cannot implement a stranger’s experience or opinion within your life and expect improvement. Even some of the greatest practical wealth books ever written will not yield results as the methods are not current or applicable within today’s market.
Start writing your own story today. Become the reason that others bang their head against books hoping that one day they are as great as YOU.
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