[eternomi]

This is a great piece, and hopefully a big eye opener for those who think "personal development" is the answer to all prayers. The way I see it, personal development simply creates a new mindset to achieve goals, but realization of wealth, happiness, success is still work to be done. As this piece points out, it actually lies in the hands of others, so "singularity" (aka being on your own, ignoring everything happening around you) and simple "intending" alone will never get you there. These are tools to get you moving, but not the solution in and of themselves.

I think this -rather long- piece could be summarized as "Humanity is an organism (just like a single human body is) and you gotta act as an active part of this system to get to where you'd like to go".

Personal development advocates -such as Steve- are trying to awaken those who think "wealth, success and happiness just happens to you one day" to the reality that you are in charge of the creation of these realities. Once you realize this, understand it and assimilate it into every cell of your body, you gotta go out there and just do it. Once you realize this, spending time reading any more of this personal development stuff is a waste of your time unless it increases your efficiency somehow. Instead, you should shift your attention to consuming knowledge to create wealth (not just monetary).