You are making the effort to help yourself. You have read books. You have saved the countless talks in video and audio formats. Yet that feeling persists, like you are not making any progress and you ask yourself; “Why am I not better yet? The truth is, “You’re not failing self-improvement, self-improvement is failing you. You are entangled by the self-improvement trap. The very industry promising growth has become a trap of procrastination disguised as progress. But you don’t know it.
Our focus is how you can escape the self-improvement trap that is capable of holding back from achieving the success you desire. The title is Help Yourself Right.
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Neuro research has revealed a cruel trick. Consuming self-help content floods your brain with dopamine, the same chemical reward you get from actual achievement. I have a quote that “Knowledge doesn’t make you rich; it makes you aware that you are poor and can be rich.” It is observed that your mind can’t tell the difference between reading about something and your actual engagement in doing it. This creates Dopamine Debt, which means you can feel productive while you are actually stagnating.
In my book, The Rule of Repetition, I wrote, “Knowledge in itself, is not power, but if we add the willingness to use, the ability to use and the judgement to use the knowledge, then you can generate power from the use of knowledge.
To produce the power from knowledge, stop collecting only information and start conducting experiments by putting it to work. Convert information learned to power by doing. Practice what you learn. Implement the information you receive, one idea at a time. Let your emphasis be on doing, rather than just learning. Knowledge as information will do you no good, if you don’t put it to practice. Don’t let your knowledge collect dust by not putting it to work. It is only knowledge that is put to work that builds your muscles.
Avoid the trap of jumping from one knowledge based notion to another, without sticking to see how you can master one of it. Give yourself to one method and stick to it for ample time to evaluate the results you can achieve from it. Stay consistent with the knowledge you chose to work with to see the results you can achieve. You are free to change your method after evaluation and you don’t get the results you seek. Someone made a profound statement that, “Being consistent beats novelty.” To gain mastery requires cognitive patience, so stay with one method until you are fluent with it. Fluency builds confidence and confidence builds momentum.
Have the temerity to publicly work out the knowledge you have acquired. Often, private goals die in darkness. You can tell yourself, “I’ll start on Monday,” and it becomes “Maybe next year.” You can take the step to declare your mission publicly and post daily proof of what you do. This public method works because it has been discovered that social pressure activates the amygdala’s threat response. What this means is, “Your brain prioritizes survival over excuses.”
Don’t stay in the trap of self-improvement and let it paralyze you. Improvement doesn’t come from the comfort of reading and learning. It comes from confronting the gap between what you know and what you do by the action you take. The cure you need is not in another book or message, but in acknowledging that you don’t need more motivation. What you need is more evidence of your own capability by what you do.
Stop trying to help yourself the wrong way. Start building yourself. Make your move. Pick one small action from this article or from an inspiration you receive. Do it within 10 minutes of reading this. Make a note about it. Not tomorrow. Now. The door opens when you move.
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