How Many “How To” Can You Stand On Your Shoulders?

Too many “how to” guides, usually lead to no action steps.

Photo by Deniz Altindas on Unsplash

For the last decade, there is an unstoppable big storm of “how-to” over our heads. It’s like a gigantic sphere of “how-to” material exploded high in the sky, and we still have pieces of it coming down. People are waiting — like the little bird waiting with the mouth open its food to be brought by its mother- the next BIG solution of their problem to come through a new great article/post/book/e book/video.
It’s like people can’t live without external directions.

Don’t we know how to live in a self-determining way?

“How to write”, “how to become rich”, “how to become famous”, “how to be in a relationship”, “how to be happy”, “how to cook”, “how to succeed”, “how to be a parent”, “how to blog”, “how to become a leader”, “how to find inner peace”… God! Haven’t we drown yet?

I feel like it’s time for a “how to get rid of the how-to guides” guide! Or, at least, how to handle them.

The problem

I know what you think. “Is it so bad to look for information, to enrich our knowledge about something we want to do”? This isn’t exactly the thing here. The problem is not in the action…