Last time, we discussed the way Tony Robbins tends to tell his audience only half the story. To me, spreading half-truths is the definition of bullshit. A good person to follow is Warren Buffett, who famously said “Never ask the barber if you need a haircut,” because of course the answer will be Yes.
As we discussed last time, Robbins sells tickets to in-person events. So, unsurprisingly, he loves to say “proximity is power,” and he insists you need to be in the flesh to learn from your mentors. See video below.
The claim is obviously bullshit. My main mentor is Peter Drucker and, in addition to never once meeting him, he has been dead for 20 years. Another big mentor of mine is Abraham Lincoln, and there isn’t a person on earth who has met him.
A related and transparently silly ploy is people who want you to purchase their education course, and insist you cannot learn to ride a bike by reading a book. See video below.
The obvious problem is the fact that learning to ride a bike only contains one barrier; gravity. And, gravity is something we are familiar with because we have interacted with it every second of our lives.
Conversely, entrepreneurial effectiveness, psychological development and thriving are things most people are very unfamiliar with, and they are orders of magnitude more complex than gravity. So a good leader, a leader you should follow, is a person who is competent with complexity and can teach you exactly how to thrive in a complex world, not just sell you bullshit half-truths.
Conversely, entrepreneurial effectiveness, psychological development and thriving are things most people are very unfamiliar with, and they are orders of magnitude more complex than gravity. So a good leader, a leader you should follow, is a person who is competent with complexity and can teach you exactly how to thrive in a complex world, not just sell you bullshit half-truths.
