Charlatans In The Self-Help Business, A Rant
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Larry Winget rants about the charlatans in the self-help business who claim to change lives. There are too many speakers, authors and thought leaders who put their own ego in front of someone else’s breakthrough. Unforgivable.
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Holy crap, I love this.
I do my best to share the same sentiment when I speak, that “books, videos, speakers and seminars cannot change your life…all we can do is provide information”.
Thank you Larry!
Larry, this rant may change my life. You say a lot of right things but this one is right up there with MLK’s, “Be judged by the content of their character”.
Larry,
Spot on here. I’m guilty of thinking you changed my life back in 2006, but I realized a few years back that it was not you, it was me choosing to USE the knowledge I’ve been digesting to become better. It is like the BS line “knowledge is power”, no it’s not… knowledge is powerful only when put into action.
I meant to change “digesting” to absorbing – I don’t eat what I read.
Larry, you are really interesting and so spot on. I spent the last 20 years as an instructor teaching interrogation, and only those that we’re willing to do the work, were good enough to continue on and become great interrogators themselves. I often wondered why only three or four out of a class of 15 or 20 would not quit after the first hick-up or two.
I am currently and I might add diligently reading your book Money is Easy and thoroughly enjoying what you have to say in it. All your quotes are so inspiring.
Thank you for always delivering good information.
Thanks, Larry. This rant changed my life. 🙂
I’d like to say that I may agree with you to a certain degree. Of course there are such people who promise a lot, who promise heaven without any involvement, any work in reaching it. There are people who say that thinking is enough to achieve your goals. Based on my experience I can say that this is a load of rubbish. Of course you’re right saying that this is me or you who must do the job. However, after reading books , for example yours, I said to myself ‘What an idiot I am’ because you made me aware of some things, of some patterns, of the way how I was thinking and who I trusted. I’m afraid that without your inspiration, not forgetting about others, I would have followed these stupid ideas. So, maybe you’re not a life changer but definitely you are also entitled to take the credit for opening people’s eyes – and it really means a lot. I’m of the opposite view regarding what you have said about people’s failures. You don’t teach them the bad things, you don’t lie to them, you don’t infect them with naivety, so you cannot take the credit for it. People are free and they have freedom of choice. They decide what to take, what to introduce into their lives- in accordance with the rule ‘ garbage in garbage out’. Thank you very much for your inspiration- we all need it. Even if some of us do the motivational , inspirational job, as I do.
Amen Mr Larry. No one got me sober. I DID… I made the choice. Then I continue to make smart choices every day to create a positive life for myself. Always appreciate your honesty about the ‘self help’ gurus. Oops, the Gurus forgot that little word ‘SELF HELP’.
Penny
Mr.Winget usually I watch you vids and read your blogs and the ones with your friends are informative and weather I agree or disagree with you views is my own business but this time I think you have really made a point,and a good one at that,a lot of the self help gurus out there take your money and feed a bunch of hype to you and send you on your way until you need there next course without any interaction in between,you at least have answered back and used a popular media with which to spread information on a large scale of subjects and what a person uses that info for in “them ” changing there own life is there choice.
A person can read a store house full of self help books,but if they don’t apply any of them to their life, it does them no good. The decisions one makes, determines their life. People can only offer you an option, but they have no power to change a person. You are so right.