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How to Reach Maximum ‘Escape Velocity’ to Get Your Dream Off the Ground
Self-help is amazing and it also sucks.
On the one hand, I know for certain that pretty much everyone of a reasonable intelligence level can pull off truly astonishing goals — including you.
The ‘maxed out’ version of you is probably unimaginable. Even reaching, let’s say, 20 or 30 percent of what you’re truly capable of would blow your mind.
Unless you’re 5 feet 6 with a dream to be in the NBA or someone with a terrible voice hoping to become a pop star, the sentence “you can do anything you put your mind to” is one hundred percent true.
But then you have to, you know, put your mind to it. And it’s hard. That’s where self-help falls short because it can’t bridge that gap for you. And sometimes it can just be a reminder of your own inadequacy.
You can read all the books, watch all the videos, listen to all the podcasts, and take all the self-improvement courses you want, but you still have to face reality, take action, and build the habits and discipline level to pull of those huge goals.
And most people don’t. I’m always upfront about the fact that becoming ‘successful’ is abnormal.
Most people are good people. They work hard. They are well-intentioned. Clearly, many…
