I have read countless books and articles and treatises on the subject of success and been left frustrated by most of them. You name it, I’ve read it. I’ve probably reviewed the book on here also, or soon will.
The Problem and The Solution
The problem is that so many either explain things in such great, overwhelming, disabling detail that people never succeed, possibly are never even inspired to take action, OR, they are so vague and narrow and lacking catalytic content – stuff that really takes the wood and pours the gas and starts the fire – that people don’t know where to start. They are also hard to navigate.
Books are great, but they tend to progress and be digested in a linear fashion. A website, to me, is superior, as it allows information – the same as what you’d read in a book if I were to write one – to exist in a spider web, so to speak – where everything is connected – and there are links between topics and ideas to allow people to progress and navigate through the whole of the content. It allows you to seek and find the pieces they need in the moment, the answers to their questions as they come up.
This works better, because not everyone’s journey unfolds in the way YOU want to write a book. That doesn’t make your presentation invalid, it’s just that we all come with different pieces of information and experience, having certain things, needing other things, not needing some things. Any author who is trying to present information who is too in love with their experience, their unfolding, will not succeed in creating an actionable plan. Information is information, but when it is presented in a linear fashion when it doesn’t necessarily need to be, readers inevitably end up trudging through stuff that is not of interest OR not relevant to where they are in their journey, and they lose interest.
In our connected Information Age, we have become increasingly accustomed to a greater level of efficiency and speed in our daily tasks. Our ability to access and pinpoint the information we need is greater than ever. As a result, books, especially for such hotly contested topics as success, are not necessarily the best means of transmission for this information. There are indexes, but there are no links in books. There are no “related chapters and topics” bars at the bottom. There’s no book search engine.
My Objective
My goals are to offer information in two areas:
- the principles – super broad, succinct, universal ideas very much distilled – only as many as nature dictates there should be,
followed by…
- the practices – chunks of information that contextualize these broad principles and add additional supporting material to it.
You’ve got the core elements, the things that don’t really change, that you’ll reference over and over and memorize, and then you’ve got the practices, as many or as few as you want to read, all split up so that what’s relevant is quick and easy to digest, and what’s not is there for whomever else it resonates with.
Everything is contextualized, on topic as much as it can be, and also thoroughly linked from one to another to help facilitate ease of navigation of this material when it comes to questions and curiosity that reading often spurs. If you get something – you truly understand it – but it poses a new question or curiosity, the information is linked there to help you follow that stream of consciousness and expansion, and not be bogged down by the author’s idea of how your learning should progress.
Everything is highly compartmentalized in this sense, so that individualized learning is promoted and facilitated, so that you can go and meander wherever your curiosity leads you.
Again, fluff, and immaterial and experiential subjective details are nice, but they are mostly unnecessary. A rigorous linear arrangement is also counterintuitive. I will say it again that an author that is in love with their experience not just on occasion, but throughout their story, is one who will rarely succeed with their intent.
Omit useless content.
Photo Credit: Photo by Stanislav Kondratiev on Unsplash
