What is being forgotten by the author of this post is that we are all different. Each of these posts, regardless of the main theme (in this case productivity) a

What is being forgotten by the author of this post is that we are all different. Each of these posts, regardless of the main theme (in this case productivity) are coming from different life experiences and different approaches. Some of these posts provide a specific set of insights with instructions, others just some morsels of wisdom on the subject. Reading these types of posts will resonate differently to me versus to someone else. Having these posts out there is a nice repetition of the main ideas and at some point when the person is ready, it can come together. At that point, all the different posts on the subject that the person has read will have started to come together with bits and pieces from each. We do only really change when we are ready. I see these posts as the accumulation of knowledge to be there for us once we are ready to take the steps. I guess these thoughts can be true for other areas. For me personally, I have been reading about setting up a home gym, kettle bells, paleo diets, low carb diets, dangers of grains (a la Wheat Belly) for the past few years and yet wasn't in a position to do anything to act on all these knowledge either through lack of motivation and life circumstances. Recently, within the last 2-3 months, it's all coming together. I'm tightening up the diet, working out from home, starting to use kettle bells, removing a lot of the unnecessary carbs and all the knowledge for all of this has been ingrained in my brain from reading and learning about all these over all this time. My personal map of knowledge in this area allows me to dig deeper in the right places since I've visited these places before causally. So to the authors point, no, not one article is going to make anybody jump up and start to make drastic changes to their life. Perhaps not even a hundred. But when that person is ready, all those articles will play a part in helping them make these changes.