Self Help Motivational Blogs? Adding More Time To My Day? Improving My Life? What is This Bullshit? What a SCAM!

monsieurhire2 · 2014-05-16T20:09:50+00:00

To paraphrase an old maxim, "Everything is a scam, nothing is a scam." If people find some voodoo, witchcraft applied psychology trick helpful, it's not a scam. If they spend thousands of dollars and hours of their time trying to apply it and keep failing, it's probably a scam.

It's best to think about one's problems and try out different solutions. I've read a lot of those books, and a lot of what they offer is common sense. I don't recommend shelling out thousands of dollars for tutoring, tours, speaking events, or any of that crap. I've never done it and it boggles the mind to me that people do it. Just buy the book or check it out from the library and read the ideas in it.

NoLongerSisyphus · 2014-05-16T20:33:21+00:00

You mean bullshit sold by bullshit peddlers that will improve your life, reduce your stress, and allow you the freedom to do what you want to do without worry?

Bullshit makes great fertilizer, but I wouldn't build anything on it.

AVillain101 · 2014-05-16T20:19:51+00:00

I never saw TRP blogs and websites as "Self-Help Motivational". This could be why I was even more receptive to RP messages. I don't think your friend's problem is being ashamed to reach for help. I think it's more that he associates these sites and blogs with the self-help, spiritual, scam books and audio-books that litter the Mainstream Media. You know the ones, think of that episode of Family Guy in which Brian writes a book to show Stewie that any idiot can write a retarded book in 20 minutes and reap thousands off of it without actually doing anything in your life. This is what your friend's first impression most likely is. While I despise these scam books and the such, I did not get that vibe from TRP because I knew it brought results and saw them for myself shortly after. I was also in a mindset that allowed me to be more receptive to information about bettering myself.

This is all about the way TRP is framed for your friend. It's not going to be easy to show him the light, but don't shove it down his throat, that will have an adverse effect.

PaulRivers10 · 2014-05-17T01:04:21+00:00

One of the problems with reaching for help, is that as a guy, so much of the "help" is utter bullshit or stuff that actively makes things worse for you. It's a skill in and of itself to figure out what makes sense and what is crap.

Just look at dating advice right now. I've benefited greatly from Game and TRP. But do you know why TRP was so beneficial? It's because before that, I was reading other "help" sites about women, which basically parrotted back feminist "don't ever have sex or date" level of advice in a way that sounded like it made a lot of sense and women would like it. It was a combination of a friend who picked up game and was successful with it by doing the opposite of what I had been told (it wasn't just that he got laid - woman would go around talking about how an amazing guy he was, whether they turned him down, he converted them to a plate, etc).

The question is - is most of the actual sources and material in self help actually a scam? For the most part, especially when it comes to men - it is. There is another blog that I don't want to send any traffic to, who's revenue stream is page views created by repeating feminist dating advice (in other words advice on how to not make women uncomfortable by being compliant and not sexy) to men and pretending to help them.

The root of the problem isn't that they're afraid of asking for help, the root is that they're validly afraid of asking for help and ending up in a worse place than they started with.

A lot of people are drawn to TRP exactly because of the truly, totally horrible dating advice they received when they went looking for it. A lot of other advice for men is similar.

2014-05-16T20:07:57+00:00

Reading "The way of superior man" on what women want.

Title	Self Help Motivational Blogs? Adding More Time To My Day? Improving My Life? What is This Bullshit? What a SCAM!
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Date	May 16, 2014 8:02 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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