Summary: Prevent yourself from the traps of self help and ideas in general.

Body: You might be having a lot of great books in your shelf-from 48 Laws to Meditations to Stephen Covey. Reading is a great habit and TRP recommends it all the time, but all the self help ideas and advice there is, it is endless.

There are a lot of ideas in these books you read, or the RSD videos you watch. Every single video or idea has a new insight and a new topic. But really ask yourself-are these ideas adding value to your life?

Of course they are. Making you see things more clearly, but as the world is right now and always-Ideas are an abundant thing and if analysis and execution don't go hand in hand, it can lead to a disaster.

There are three types of people (Quoting RSD Tyler here): Those who dont know what happened, those who wonder what happen and those who make things happen. The third category is where men on the top are at. You can shit on them all you want, but their actions hold the most power.

Thats the perfect position to read and apply self help, when you want to amplify your results or to know places where you'd be stuck at.

Let me define a self help junkie now. Let's call him Steve. Steve has seen allRSD videos, has read every single book recommended by TRP and many other forums, knows the 48 laws of power by his fingers, but he never applies it in his life. You can guess what the end result would be like.

Steve refreshes TRP when he's on his phone, reassuring himselves that he's actually learning things that would give him a benefit above his peers, and if they are ever in trouble they can look upto him for help (Sounds familiar?). He in his friends circle always brings up advice for every situation, spewing out self help jargon like paradigms and egoes and win-win situations, he thinks he's better than all of his peers. But his peers hate him because of his know-it-all, do as I say not as I do nature.

Because when Steve can't show his results, he should keep his mouth shut.

A CEO of a top company, might or might not need a self help book to make him achieve his pursuits. Why? He has inherited those qualities already. Thats why Chad who already slays pussy everyday doesnt need TRP.. Because he doesnt need to!

Steve despite of knowing everything in these books gets nowhere in life because he's procrastinating it. 'I'll do it later after reading another post/book. After all, a new insight would only improve the result, right?' No it wont.

If you catch yourself giving unnecessary advice to people not coming from a place of experience, if you need yet another video to motivate yourself and charge you to do action in life, if you are overwhelmed with ideas and not taking action, then maybe you are like Steve.

Ideas are in abundance and only a few people genuinely take action. Kindly treat self development as a tool and not mentally masturbate over every little idea that comes along. It might turn to a poison later on.

(From Waking Life-Ask yourself, what is a more universal trait? Fear, or laziness?

Writing this post because I used to be one. Taking action is much better than being dumbstruck with all this feel good trap. Hope this helps people out there.