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Effort
Consider how much effort you're putting in to actively work on the areas you're reading about.
If you are working little on the areas you've identified, but spending a significant amount of time-consuming information, you may be having some kind of substitution effect.
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The problem with substitution
Without doing and solving the main issue, more information will only be counterproductive.
Trying to offer encouragement may be harmful in the long-run. The best treatment involves confronting the anxiety and not to reduce the tension by consolation. By offering sympathy, you are esc...
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The dominating factor
To find out if the substitute or complement dominates will depend on many factors.
- The material itself. Some types of self-improvement provide a large emotional payoff but are weak on substantial follow-up. They don't make good complements.
- The Natur...
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Reading vs doing
Reading about self-improvement can be a compliment or a substitute for taking action.
- A complement view to self-improvement writing is that it should aid with personal development - the more books you read, the more likely you are to work on improving yourself.
- With substitutes...
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Excessive passivity
This is the habit of only consuming the information that is brought in front of you, rather than actively cultivating knowledge in areas that are valuable to you.
Addressing this problem can be done in a pragmatic way: consider it a habit audit, or an honest look at how you are spending you...
Effort makes a task less attractive
Mental effort is costly, so we generally prefer to work on an simple task rather than a hard task. We procrastinate more if we expect a certain task to be hard.
This happens because the more effort a task requires, the more someone stands to gain by putting the same amount of effort in...
Come ready to learn
Suppose you know that you're going to meet a particular person or group of people. In that case, the chances are that meaningful conversation will not so much be derived from an exchange of personal information but from having a satisfying conversation about an interesting topic or issue.
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