And I'm not saying that hard work is a silver bullet because it's not a guarantee for anything, but dedicating yourself to something is good in and of itself, and doesn't rely on seminars, books, arcane knowledge or anything else. It's the opposite of a racket because there is no racketeer.
And my last sentence was not distasteful at all. Depression is generally not solved by one-off sessions with life-coaches. It might for some peculiar reason be the experience of one individual, but that is not how depression works, you're free to consult the literature or talk to a bunch of people who suffer from it.
FWIW, that's not what I was talking about, the guy I went to see is a hypnotherapist not a messiah.
> And my last sentence was not distasteful at all.
FWIW I wasn't offended. (I've had friends insult me to my face when bringing up personal history that is outside their worldview.)
> Depression is generally not solved by one-off sessions with life-coaches.
Right, and that is not what happened to me. The person who helped me is arguably the greatest living hypnotherapist on the planet.
Anyway, IMO you're right about the value and importance of hard work but wrong about books not being helpful.
Cheers!
Really? Perhaps you need to think long and hard about what you wrote above.
We got to the moon and in 2020 style civilization, from the technology involved to the social issues and personal problems we overcame, with hard work, not with "easy magic".
To paraphrase a sibling comment, you sound like a self-help guru yourself, albeit a spiteful one. You deride others' solutions and offer up your own: hard magic-less work. Hard work is as much of a racket as easy magic.