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I'm confused, it seems insight porn is this guy's business. His article even ends with this: > If you’d like to get more honest strategies and proven framework

by bambax 4y ago

I'm confused, it seems insight porn is this guy's business. His article even ends with this: > If you’d like to get more honest strategies and proven frameworks for winning in life and business, then simply join my free newsletter here. Is he simply trying to trash the competition?

engineer_22 4y ago
Yea, it's kind of his shtick.
keyle 4y ago
Give an addict a solution drug to his drug problem... you do the math.
sanggonlee 4y ago
His point is not really abandon all the insight porns - but rather pick only those that you can experiment with. And if all his advice do provide something actionable, he's living up to his words.
duckmysick 4y ago
I noticed a common pattern in self-help publications: 1. Claim a common self-help method is ineffective. 2. Show why it's ineffective. 3. Present a different self-help method. Point number 2 is really important. It could be anything: an anecdote, some data, a paper. But the strongest signal is if the readers themselves already tried the ineffective solution. If it was effective, there's no need for them to research more. But it wasn't working and there's this person who says there's no way it would work. And they are right, so let's hear what else do they have to say (or sell). You've the walking proof something didn't work and there's someone who's agreeing with you. You did all the hard work and the author is tagging along. The beauty of it is the original method might be fine, it just didn't work out for you for whatever reason. Including if you read about it, but didn't try.
Ensorceled 4y ago
This article actually provides a framework for deciding if a productivity tool is useful, by running an experiment, or at least identifying experiments, on the advice provided to see if it works for you. They clearly highlight as "insight porn" stuff that doesn't provide actionable advice. At the end, they invite you to apply this new "is this useful, not useful or not even bad" decision process to their own services/products.
NotTameAntelope 4y ago
The "only I can truly help you" pattern is a very common one for selling hokum, so yeah I would agree this is probably a way to peel readers from other self-help gurus.

by bambax 4y ago

engineer_22 4y ago

Yea, it's kind of his shtick.

keyle 4y ago

Give an addict a solution drug to his drug problem... you do the math.

sanggonlee 4y ago

His point is not really abandon all the insight porns - but rather pick only those that you can experiment with. And if all his advice do provide something actionable, he's living up to his words.

duckmysick 4y ago

I noticed a common pattern in self-help publications: 1. Claim a common self-help method is ineffective. 2. Show why it's ineffective. 3. Present a different self-help method. Point number 2 is really important. It could be anything: an anecdote, some data, a paper. But the strongest signal is if the readers themselves already tried the ineffective solution. If it was effective, there's no need for them to research more. But it wasn't working and there's this person who says there's no way it would work. And they are right, so let's hear what else do they have to say (or sell). You've the walking proof something didn't work and there's someone who's agreeing with you. You did all the hard work and the author is tagging along. The beauty of it is the original method might be fine, it just didn't work out for you for whatever reason. Including if you read about it, but didn't try.

Ensorceled 4y ago

This article actually provides a framework for deciding if a productivity tool is useful, by running an experiment, or at least identifying experiments, on the advice provided to see if it works for you. They clearly highlight as "insight porn" stuff that doesn't provide actionable advice. At the end, they invite you to apply this new "is this useful, not useful or not even bad" decision process to their own services/products.

NotTameAntelope 4y ago

The "only I can truly help you" pattern is a very common one for selling hokum, so yeah I would agree this is probably a way to peel readers from other self-help gurus.