When I was just out of college I spent a couple of months reading that kind of literature. Then I started to realize that if I did everything they asked I wound

When I was just out of college I spent a couple of months reading that kind of literature. Then I started to realize that if I did everything they asked I wound't be myself anymore, I would be the image of an idealized "successful" person that these people write about. When I figured out that, I saw the whole think makes no sense.