 What's up guys? Let's talk about something that a lot of these people in the personal development industry or personal development self-improvement Gig suffer from and that's information paralysis, right? Where they hold too much information go to too many seminars, watch too many DVDs Become gurus, but never actually do anything if you're suffering from this you need to understand one thing that Knowledge is not power like what you have come to believe knowledge is only potential power now Let's illustrate this with this example for pendulum and energy, right? This is the metaphor going to be using if you remember your physics class a Pendulum in this position will only have potential energy. It's got potential energy, right? The energy is not being used yet It's there, but it's not being used yet. It's kind of stored But when you release the pendulum and it starts moving that potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy moving energy That's the same thing with knowledge. Knowledge can be the equivalent of potential energy. It's there, but it's not being used It's it's like what peace sage always says knowing and not doing is as good as not knowing So what really matters is being able to apply that potential energy Into kinetic energy into motion into taking action to gain the ball moving ball rolling Once you're doing able to do this That's when you will really see the results of your labor See a lot of people always saying that these guys on the internet that give you a lot of knowledge like Tai Lopez is the big one that comes up Scare mothers or frauds because they are taking your money and they're not really teaching how to be rich Or what you have to understand is what guys like Tai Lopez are doing is they're giving you they're giving you the required potential energy Required knowledge foundation they're giving foundational knowledge in order for you to make the decision and ultimately Take the necessary action to get things moving No one's gonna spoon feed you through life. No one's gonna give you the step-by-step way of getting things done because Everything's different the blueprint for one guy is gonna be different for another guy because the enormous amounts of variables that are Experienced through everyday life. Everyone has different life. There's gonna be different situations. You need to take your own action Given the potential energy. All right, so that's the first thing Okay, the second thing now that we've established the role of knowledge and of reading books and stuff like that is Expanding your depth or field right see a lot of people only draw from one field I'm sure you've heard of the man with the hammer syndrome where if you're a man with a hammer every problem appears to be a nail What reading does is it allows you to? Draw from different fields that you might not have been able to draw from personally For example, instead of you going through the motions and learning every single thing that Sigmund Freud learned you just read civilizations and his discontents and Get some knowledge about his philosophy instead of being a Emperor in Rome You can read Marcus Aurelius's Meditations maybe instead of being a professional boxer you could read, you know undisputed truth by Mike Tyson There's all these different Places you can draw information from and each one paints a bigger picture a lot of people stuck in this single Myopic view of the world they think that the way they see things the way it is what you understand Is a complex system as dynamic you're not going to be able to experience everything But the best approach you can have is drawing from different areas kind of like Bruce Lee and Taking what's useful this will go on was useless and applying that to your situation So when that when a new problem comes up now you don't only have a hammer to smash it with perhaps you have The wise words of Ralph Waldo Emerson to guide you through it. There's different things that you can do That's what I'm trying to show to you guys here. There's options options. Don't be limited by ignorance broaden your horizon Reading the book is not just for nerds and geeky students. This is what actualized people do They do this all the time. I read personally maybe an hour a day Average right what that be all your books I should reading our day and I'm telling you right now the difference in makes your life is enormous applied Applying that you actually use the information and get the ball rolling as we said before You don't want something from information paralysis still so it's kind of paradoxal You want to read you want to get this knowledge, but you don't want to get so much that you don't do anything Just understand the balance understand the right balance is everything's about balance. All right Anyway, I hope you guys got some value of this video if you liked it make sure you press the like button And don't forget to subscribe Peace just do it