@WVUBaseball faithful! I wish I could join you and @TonyCaridi in Omaha! But while you’re there, go enjoy some of the best BBQ in the world at @PorkyButtsBBQ ! They’ll welcome you in! Make it Country Roads HQ!
NEW blog post is up!
The Self-Help Trap: What 20+ Years of “Optimizing” Has Taught Me
The older I get, the more I think that self-help can be a trap. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I say this after ~20 years of writing self-help and a lifetime of consuming it.
Spend enough time in the world of “improvement,” and you’ll notice something strange: The people most obsessed with self-help are often the least helped by it. Behind the smiles and motivational quotes, behind closed doors and after a drink or two, the truth is that they’re not able to outsmart their worries.
On one hand, perhaps this unhappiness is precisely what lands one in self-development in the first place, right? I long assumed this about myself, and it’s partially true.
On the other hand, what if self-help itself is actually creating or amplifying unhappiness?
Modern self-help contains an in-built flaw:
To continually improve yourself, you must continually locate the ways you are broken.
Fortunately, there are a few perspective shifts that make all the difference. It took me embarrassingly long to figure them out.
To get started, let’s take a fresh look at an old concept.
See the link below to the full blog post 👇
Dear @WVUfootball and @wrenbaker —-light light show shenanigans at Mountaineer Field are an absolute debacle. Please stop before people watching at home have seizures.
@tferriss Everything about the slow carb diet. Revolutionary. Thank you for all your hard work. Would love to know if there were any things you’d change about slow carb, or perhaps how a slow carb/intermittent fast would work