I clicked on this and ended up reading it through in an unsuccessful effort to persuade myself that it was parody of TED-talk-y self-help word salad. I don't wa

I clicked on this and ended up reading it through in an unsuccessful effort to persuade myself that it was parody of TED-talk-y self-help word salad. I don't want to disparage anyone's work (especially in a second language), but stuff like this irks me. The whole post seems untethered from reality or even linguistic sense – some sentences don't mean anything at all if you parse them, while others make baldly unsupportable claims; the transition words are dutifully in place but nothing he says follows from what came before. Rene Girard's mimetic desire, concept maps, and behavioral econ jargon are all trotted out in no particular order to persuade "us" (who presumably did not know) that there is more to life than Netflix. Yet I keep seeing this particular flavor of self-improvement being shared and discussed in places with decent standards of discourse like it was something valid. Is there something I'm just not getting?