Thread: The myth of I-M
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Old 12-29-2006, 11:26 AM   #70 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by moviestar View Post
I personally don't believe that making money is bad. If a self-hep guru makes money it is because he produced some kind of value that people agree to pay money for. So it's OK if they are rich. But I don't think they are there for the money, money is not the problem.

I think the self-help people want attention and want popularity. Because of that they come up with ideas that really bring attention of a lot of people and gives them hope. For example Tony Robbins has some great advice, he really understands the human mind but NLP? Fire walking? It's just a trick that gets attention, the real advice is somewhere else.

Just like Steve Pavlina, he has some really great articles but he gets attention with spooky stuff like subjective reality. It doesn't help anyone. Stuff that helps is written in articles like "Do it now", that is what counts.
True, you've got a point there too.
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