A speaker uses a car metaphor to argue that self-help gurus sell expensive external fixes when the real problem is internal. You're pressing the brake with one foot while accelerating with the other. Removing that internal brake gets you to your goals ten times faster and costs nothing.
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Let's say you're driving down the road and you have one foot on the brake and you're not reaching your goals as fast as you want. So guru number 1 comes along and they say, you know what your problem is? You need a new type of gas, right? You got to put in this high octane gas, very expensive, but put in the best gas you can find and that will fix your problem. Say, all right, go to the gas station, put in the most high octane expensive gas, get back in your car, but you're still doing the same habit, getting the same result. Guru number 2 comes along and they say, you know what you need? You need a new set of tires, right? These tires aren't good enough. Put in these really expensive tires. Put these expensive tires on and that will fix your problem. You say, all right, go to the car tire store, expensive tires, put them on, get back in your car, same habit, same result. Guru number 3 comes along. You know what you need? You need a new car, right? You should get a really expensive Italian sports car like mine. Right? And you go on his social media and he looks so cool. There's cars and houses and yachts and right there, right? You go, well, all right, I guess he knows what he's doing. So you trade in your car, which was perfectly fine, buy a new expensive Italian sports car, but you get back in that car, you're still doing the same habit and getting the same result. So meanwhile, you've spent all this time, money, and effort on the wrong solutions to the wrong problem. So what if I came along and I said, excuse me, do you know you have your foot on the brake? And you go, no. And I say, yeah, you know, if you get your foot off the brake, you actually reach your goals a lot faster and easier. You're like, really? Yeah, you just do these simple things, get your foot off the brake, and then you can reach your goals like 10 times faster and easier without having to spend a lot more time and money. You're like, when do we start?