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Oh, yeah. I went through a bit of that myself and had a Personal Development Meltdown.

But, at this point, I've realized that everything I went through was necessary to get to where I am today. I mean, if you read PD books for 10 years and never implement anything, I could see that as excessive. But I think people usually underestimate their progress as well.

I was just recently told to think back to where I was when I started posting here and compare it to today. Really an eye-opener. However, to me it felt like I was barely implementing what I learned at all yet.

In short, it's possible to just be treading water and intellectualizing it all, but if you are making even small strides you are doing better than the majority of the population that isn't interested in improving at all.