“Burn the bridges and go all in!” – Random bad guru. Sometimes people will be hesitant to burn all their other options, or to try a new workout routine that requires them to eat perfectly and workout 2 hours a day. They think that if they can’t have the perfect diet, then there’s no point […]

“Don’t give up hope!” – Random bad guru. A lot of people hope for better opportunities – ones that have faster results, are easier, are safer, are more fun. A lot of good opportunities take time to get through – whether it be schooling of some sort, working as an apprentice for peanuts, and so […]

“I can provide the step by step process to making you rich!” – Random bad guru The problem with step by step guidance is by the time you’re making through the process, things have changed so dramatically that the steps aren’t relevant any more. Unless you’re making a cake and need a step by step […]

“Winners take action and move fast!” – Random Bad Guru Partially true advice, as always. However, our desire to optimize for speed compromises nearly everything that’s actually important. People think things like:“I want delicious food, but I want it fast.” – Now you get McDonalds, b/c it’s fast but now not so delicious.“I want to […]

See what others that are more successful than you are doing, and do that! – Random Guru There’s pieces of truth to this statement, but the problem behind simply modeling is not being able to see the entire process. Imagine that everyone that is a professional actor has had 10 movies before they have their […]

We basically only avoid pain / seek pleasure but avoiding pain is MUCH stronger of a motivator. If you hate everything like your job or wife it can make you seek the things you hate less. If you hate nearly everything, you’ll instinctively gravitate to the thing you hate the least. Don’t let a positive […]

“Take my 3 day intensive boot camp to avoid the mistakes I made!” – Random Guru. Isn’t it interesting that every successful person you hear interviewed talks about all the mistakes they made? Why didn’t they just read the books to learn from other’s mistakes and not do them? Why didn’t they just take that […]

If everyone would follow my advice, they’d all be rich! – Random Guru I’d talked at length with the problems with “good” advice. Another part of advice that is exceedingly important is the specificity. As advice reaches general concepts, the value approaches 0 but is applicable to the widest audience. As advice reaches high levels […]