Shaan Puri
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's like your present doesn't need to be perfect.
Neither does your past.
Because of course, the people who get really into self-help are the people who needed it, right?
They're the people who, they had the pain, they had the wound, and therefore they went and studied.
Therefore, when they overcame, they have the deepest mastery and understanding of it because they actually like self-actualized, self-did it.
So I don't hold it against anybody also if they had sort of a broken past.
The only thing I think is bogus is
If A, the things you preach don't actually help people or they're like a lower form of success or your sort of help, this is sort of like the Andrew Tate problem, right?
Like he might...
Or even to an extent, you know, there's people who are like fitness people who it's all about the grind and suffering.
Or there's business success people who, again, it's all about the grind and suffering.
And so you're actually giving people a dirty form of fuel, right?
You're giving them a – you're popularizing a path that is –
not actually the best method, right?
It's like giving medicine that's, you know, not as effective as the leading medicine when the leading medicine exists.
Like as a doctor, you really shouldn't be prescribing like medicines that are not as effective.
You should be prescribing whatever the most effective thing is in the market.
So that's the first knock I have.
And the second is you're actually lying about your past or you're lying about, you know, your present.
Like the lying I think is,