Illusion of success
Watching self-improvement content gives us the illusion that we achieved something already. But in reality - nothing really changed.
Digital world is different from the real one and as long as we continue to spend any of our free time there, we vanish the time for the real self-improvement.
Maybe you think you need to watch all that videos and read all that books...
But I think it's much simpler than this.
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