The Business of Selling Success is Broken

The self help industry is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Books, conferences, seminars, and coaching all produce billions of dollars for those providing the solutions. A large portion of the self-help world is dedicated to teachers teaching you “success.”

Everything I share in this video is my interpretation of this industry. All that I ask is that you have an open mind, and if you disagree, which is totally cool, then leave a comment and let me know why. The goal of this video is to share with you my interpretation of how to pursue improvement and staying away from spending thousands of dollars on empty mentorship.

My brain works like this: everything needs to be clearly defined and measurable or else it’s useless to me. Self-help and mindset are very difficult concepts for me to understand because there’s no concrete definition or any measurement to track progress. For me, whenever I set a goal, it’s going to be clearly defined with a time limit.

The reason why the self-help industry is a multi-billion dollar profit machine is because it is really easy to sell people using vague concepts that can’t be measured. Having more fulfillment in life or more passion is a concept that I can’t understand because it’s not tangible and there’s no objective way to ensure you’re either progressing or you’re not.

This is important because if you’re not progressing at all then your current path needs to be adjusted so that you can reach your goals. Not having the ability to measure progress will slow your growth.