Endless Information, Zero Action: The Paradox of Self-Improvement
If you are anything like me and many others, you follow certain bloggers, writers, and podcasts. We have our Daily Darren for business motivation and learning. Millions around the world have understood that “working on yourself” is essential to “living the life you want and living it happily ever after, with lots of meaning.”
Like many, I start my day by reading for half an hour about subjects that don’t pertain to my profession (accounting and finance), as I already read enough about it to stay up to date. Every morning, I receive a couple of emails from Medium with choices of articles I have shown interest in. I have been reading on Medium for at least the last two years, and today — this must have been coming — I came across the article titled “I Dropped 37 lbs by Dropping These 3 Habits” by Anthony J.F.
As I read the article, I was curious: would he have anything new to share? Nope! Over the thousands of articles on weight loss (or perhaps even way more), it is always the same idea, the same information, just spiced up differently. So, I wonder, why do millions read these articles yet do not act upon the information given? Why do writers keep on writing about information that has been written about a gazillion times?
