Self-help books create an addiction to motivation without action. Consuming content feels like progress but changes nothing. Real improvement requires doing the work, not just reading about it.
There was a great book several years ago called the Self Help Addict and talked about this idea of people that just enjoy the idea of self help. And that's real nice because it's real convenient to get motivated, but there's no pressure to ever apply it. And so for a lot of people, they get addicted to this idea of consuming self help books, videos, motivational videos, because it gives you this false belief that you're doing something to improve your life. But knowledge without action is really meaningless. You have to show what you know.
