Shaan Puri

Every Maxim has an equal.

Well, I had one to show on the advice, self-help advice thing.

Did you see the Tim Ferriss blog he posted, I think, today or yesterday?

The Ouroboros of infinity.

Yeah, exactly.

So Tim Ferriss, who's helped a lot of people and been a big distributor and receiver of self-help, basically writes this post kind of essentially saying-

got to be careful with self-help.

But in a pretty personal way, I thought it was kind of an amazing post about like, if you go through this loop, the type of person who wants self-help, they want to be happy.

And so they try to fix a problem to make themselves happy.

But in order to fix the problem, they're constantly searching and trying to fix problems.

It's got nuts.

Ouroboros has nuts.

And so this post is amazing.

It's basically just like the act of self-improvement can lead to that sort of infinite cycle of searching for problems to solve, to improve.

And then you just sort of get addicted to the medicine in that way.

Well, he actually says it in this.

Basically, he's like, there's this...

Like you need both.

If you just have radical acceptance of your situation, you go nowhere and you will ultimately not be happy with your own like lack of progress in life.

But if you only chase progress and never take acceptance to either weaknesses, flaws, imperfections in your life and just be able to sit with them.