Lighten Your Load
Just tell me how to make money and I’ll do it.
Just tell me what to say to him/her to make them like me and I’ll do it.
Just tell me what to say in an interview and I’ll do it.
Just tell me how to lose weight and I’ll do it.
The problem with this thinking is twofold. One is that humans are incredibly complex. WAY more than anybody even realizes.
Meaning that even if you were to go back in time, and follow Bill Gates around since he was a little kid, you still might not be able to reproduce his behaviors and results.
Unless you WERE him, and could see the world the way he did, and respond to opportunities that way he did, you wouldn’t get the same results.
Everybody is different. Everybody has their own unique set of skills, learning styles, and desires.
For example, many rich people only got rich because they were always DESPERATELY afraid of being poor.
I don’t know about you, but imagining some scary poverty monster chasing me my whole life doesn’t sound like a lot of fun!
Another reason is that hoping to be told “what to do” is not such a great idea is because it’s not really the best question.
The truth about you is that you came into this world ALREADY preprogrammed to LEARN ANYTHING you need to learn.
Which means you don’t need to do more stuff in order to get whatever you want, you’ve got to do less stuff.
What stuff?
Stuff like listening to and believing those self doubts every time you’ve got a good idea.
Stuff like actually believing those memories where somebody told you you COULDN’T do something.
Stuff like that silly idea the failure is bad, or giving the wrong answer means you’re stupid, or asking “stupid” questions means you’re not as smart as everybody else.
I saw a goofy commercial once where a guy pulled into a service station, and wanted to know why he was getting such poor gas mileage. The attendant looked in his trunk and saw about 300 pounds of exercise weights.
“There’s your problem!” He said.
Eject all that junk you’ve been lugging around all this time, and you’ll feel fantastic.