I think you paint with too broad a brush , like...the hypnagogic effect from being at a rony robbins event IS THE POINT
Thats why he has no few books vs the amount of live events he does , he got started with nlp and hypnosis and gestalt therapy and yeh jim rohn but anyone can write a goals list or make a vision board or wtf ever.
You pay the 800 dollars and fly half across the country to experience that so you can leave all super pumped up and actually execute or whatever.
I think if you could say anything broadly about the self help movement (negatively) its that the act of reading a book fills an emotional need - the authors know this , its not really a secret (on this forum we call it action faking)
Idk what the angle is now that print sells a lot less but this was huge in the 80's and 90's , look up some of these authors and the sheer amount of stuff they pushed out
I remember when "the secret" got big , they had like entire aisles at bookstores that were just "law of attraction" books regurgitating the same stuff (one series the hook was that the information was being telepathically picked up from an interdimensional being or something?)
Anyway , i'll admit I like reading for readings sake (read that as "I use it to procrastinate a lot") but at least i'm insightful enough to recognize that. One handy rule of thumb I've found is if I have a problem I need to tackle (and the solution involves learning) , "three book limit". Also before reading the first book you have to have done some massive action toward the goal in some other way (never leave the scene of a decision / new goal without having taken massive action)
Thats why he has no few books vs the amount of live events he does , he got started with nlp and hypnosis and gestalt therapy and yeh jim rohn but anyone can write a goals list or make a vision board or wtf ever.
You pay the 800 dollars and fly half across the country to experience that so you can leave all super pumped up and actually execute or whatever.
I think if you could say anything broadly about the self help movement (negatively) its that the act of reading a book fills an emotional need - the authors know this , its not really a secret (on this forum we call it action faking)
Idk what the angle is now that print sells a lot less but this was huge in the 80's and 90's , look up some of these authors and the sheer amount of stuff they pushed out
I remember when "the secret" got big , they had like entire aisles at bookstores that were just "law of attraction" books regurgitating the same stuff (one series the hook was that the information was being telepathically picked up from an interdimensional being or something?)
Anyway , i'll admit I like reading for readings sake (read that as "I use it to procrastinate a lot") but at least i'm insightful enough to recognize that. One handy rule of thumb I've found is if I have a problem I need to tackle (and the solution involves learning) , "three book limit". Also before reading the first book you have to have done some massive action toward the goal in some other way (never leave the scene of a decision / new goal without having taken massive action)
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