I used to buy a lot of books. Personal development books, business books, investment management books, entrepreneurship books, you get the idea. I’ve read at least several chapters of 100 different books on the previous topics and have learned a ton from doing it. The problem is that I got to a certain point and I realized I wasn’t actually getting anywhere.Buying books was one of my personal Twitches. My brain was telling me that I was being productive and accomplished something significant (in a single click) by buying a tool that would help me get to my end goal. I was using the purchase of a new book as a ‘false first step‘ towards accomplishing what I really needed to do. You can see that I had a habit of taking ‘false first steps’ via Amazon.com in many ways even outside of books.
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