Short motivational YouTube segment (by Scott Empringham) encouraging viewers to read biographies to see the truthful lived habits of successful people. Speaker contrasts overconsumption of self-help books with simple, repeatable daily practices, advises finding helpful people and making a plan, and recommends visiting places tied to notable figures (houses, workplaces) to form durable mental frames.
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Why? You'll realize sooner or later all the books are exactly the same. It's very basic. Figure out what you want, make a plan the best you know how to get there. And find the best people that can get information from to help you get to that next spot. Don't waste so much time reading all these books. You can spend your whole life trying to look for the next thing when it's as easy as waking up every day brushing your teeth. You know this part of his spiel to kids, but he broke it down so simply. And I. I think seeing the actuality of other people living something truthfully. And that's what I love about biographies. You can read these amazing biographies about these amazing people and see, like, as much as a biography can get in there, like, what is the truth of what they live? Like, how do they really live? And they go see their houses. When you go on tours around the world, go see these places of where they worked and they wrote books or they worked in their businesses or their first house or whatever it is. And then you have all these mental frames that stick in your mind. So if that person.