"So hard to start to act and to stop preparing to act!"

"So hard to start to act and to stop preparing to act!" the reader writes. Ignore the comments that follow. Trust me, at least 80% of you will feel hurt, ashamed, and scared. I'm serious, you've been warned. Don't read! ??

1. Beginning isn't hard once you've found the right words that so deeply penetrate your heart (and your liver, kidneys, and bladder) that you're compelled to act.

2. The real challenge, and a minor issue for most, is finding such words. That's why motivational genres, various wise sayings, and aphorisms are evergreen—an eternal genre. Why is this problem considered minor?

3. Because there's a bigger problem: every person truly believes they're already smart, and some cheap infomercial hack cannot, dare not, teach them anything new!

"How can someone TEACH ME? What could they possibly tell me that I don't already know, with my vast experience?" - this is the typical reasoning of the know-it-alls.

4. But hunger is no aunt! After decades of fruitless pride, vilification, self-love, and snobbery, when a person finds themselves destitute, their arrogance swiftly evaporates, and enlightenment dawns.

He admits, "as painful as it is, damn it, I'm not the smartest person in the room," and begins to search. Suddenly, he realizes that everything has a price, which infuriates him??. But all he gets in return is scornful laughter and a reply - "We don’t serve that here! Go watch cartoons on Youtube, you poor thing!"??

5. Five more years pass, and the person is truly suffering, experiencing panic attacks and suicidal thoughts, finally understanding that no one cares about them, no one will accommodate them, lower the price (why should they?). Thus, one must gather a significant amount of money and pay for someone or something to attempt to show the way out of the hole their own stupidity has led them into.

6. But the person is a pauper, simply incapable of paying these sums, not because they don't have the money, but because they don't believe. "It didn't work for me, why should it work for someone else?"

7. Another five years pass, and the know-it-all is willing to do anything, pay any price, and ends up paying those who shout the loudest. Eventually, everyone, without exception, spends money on seminars, buys motivational literature after 5-10-20 years, however long they can afford to waste. Do you see the pattern? And the result? None!

8. Because the path is shown to them, but no one can walk it in their stead. The person cannot follow the path because it requires taking risks, showing courage, which they lack. Why?

9. Because, in truth, they're afraid, as their personality is weak and insignificant??. They come to the horrifying realization that they are nobody and nothing. ?? To achieve anything, one must start from scratch, be willing to risk everything, and even this readiness comes.

10. Then, old age arrives, and they die filled with bitter regrets, realizing they saved a mere 0.000001% of all the money they had futilely wasted over their lifetime.

But life, their entire life, was squandered. Into nothing, into crap. This, kids, is the cost of pride and the inability to learn, and 90% of you are headed for exactly this fate.