what if i told you that there was a new routine to become more productive
a foolproof way to stay in shape and be more healthy
better way to make more money without working more
a trick to becoming the most liked and respected person
amongst the crowd would you be interested to find out how
if life's biggest lessons were nicely packaged into a book wouldn't you want to take a look at it
except it's not just one book it's many books it's podcasts and seminars it's coaching sessions and
products and this is how the self-help industry became a multi-billion dollar industry the aim of
self-help is to help us reach our full potential and ultimately enhance the quality of our lives
the overarching theme of these books tend to be that it's never too late to change our lives
and with a little determination and effort we can truly become the person that we want to be you'll
often hear mantras like don't give up and stay positive and see problems as opportunities and
these messages can actually feel really uplifting and positive living in a world where things are so
out of our control and out of our reach self-help can actually feel like we're taking matters
back into our own hands and this can feel very empowering and also daring however after i started
to read so many of these self-help books i started to notice a huge flaw in the industry itself
i first got into self-help books during my time in college as many of us do i picked up the book
rich dad poor dad by robert kiyosaki and it had a huge impact on me i think this is partly because
it was my first time kind of diving into financial literacy but also it was the first time i felt
like i had an insight into how i could grow my own wealth after i finished the book i was left
feeling so motivated and inspired and this really was the start of my self-help journey
and after this book i have read so many other books in the same genre even during this time when
i was really into these books i didn't notice that a lot of them had kind of the same advice very
commonsensical oversimplified but still i really enjoyed reading them because they were a quick and
easy read and it always left me feeling good and motivated afterwards it didn't matter what topic
it was but in one form or another each book would provide a guide on how to become the best version
of yourself and also how to live your best life now this topic is nothing new as humans we have
been exploring this idea for centuries and on the quest to finding this knowledge came philosophy
philosophers also explored similar topics on love happiness productivity life and everything
else in between but the purpose of philosophy is to challenge the assumptions that we have
on these concepts anytime i read a philosophy book i'm always left with more questions
but thought provoking questions and i'm left to kind of explore these concepts on my own
with self-help books it's completely the opposite it always seems like the author
has such a concrete solution or an answer to the problem that they had presented in the beginning
of the book it always comes in the form of a how to five or ten or twenty step guide
or on the advice of someone who's been through it all basically it does all the
heavy lifting for us and in theory this might be good because we don't have to
really work out anything for ourselves but it also leaves us no room to explore
outside of these ideas and even contemplate how we can apply this advice to our own individual lives
self-help directs us and tells us what to do it tells us to do this or to be that
in order to become more happy and more successful this usually involves some habits around waking
up early and being more time efficient saying no more often and while this is really great advice
i couldn't find a greater purpose in why i was going through this motion i just felt like i was
blindly following this advice without actually contemplating how this was going to benefit me
i couldn't help but wonder what was this all for is life just a series of goals to accomplish
and if i followed this advice to become a healthier
wealthier more efficient version of myself just even the person that i wanted to become
and of course when we fall out of these good habits or we burn out then we have to go and find
other solutions and this is how we get more and more involved in consuming more self-help content
because it seems to have all of the answers when we feel like we need to constantly self-improve
then we feel like we're never good enough when in reality what we're trying to do is an impossible
task of trying to mold ourselves and fit into this idea of someone else's ideal person i am
a huge proponent of sharing ideas and experiences and life lessons and that is really why i'm here
is to share my thoughts and perspectives on the things that happened in my life however
the life lessons that i have learned might not be relevant to you and i think it's really important
to keep that in mind when we are listening to other people's journeys and to further that point
this is why no one outside of ourselves can really tell us what we lack or how we can become
an ideal self no amount of books seminars or pdfs that will guide us closer to it because there's
not one formula that will fit us all with all of this being said i do truly value the concept of
self-help i feel that it's crucial to take charge of your life and also to become more self-aware
self-help starts with the self and ultimately it is for me however it does not have to end
there i want to find a bigger purpose a greater purpose for why i am on this self-help journey
and what i can think of is the fact that i want to become a more compassionate person
i want to be a more loving daughter sister wife and i want to be a person who can live by their
values this is the person that i want to strive to be and i think it's worth taking the time
to find my own path to get there thank you guys so much for watching today's video i hope you
enjoyed it let me know in the comments what your experience has been like with self-help
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