This Quote is a Load of Crap. Or is it?

Reality Check Before Believing in Self Help Quotes

Oh! How often do you hear it! It’s a motivational speaker’s and countless other self-help authors’ dream quote. And hell yeah it’s inspiring — If I made it as a billionaire, so can you! If I can make it as a successful author, so can you!

Scientifically speaking, bullshit.

Imagine a well-built, towering 7-foot basketball player who tells me “if I could be a world-class professional (and famous) basketball player, you could do it too”, I’d tell him to get the f*** outta here. “Are you blind? Don’t you see that I definitely don’t have the physique to even fathom that possibility, nor can I think of getting that fit in the coming years no matter what I do, knowing how I am genetically built since the last 30 years!”

Don’t get me wrong! I’m not a naysayer, wanting to go around throwing cold water on your efforts or ideas. I am all in for inspirational stuff. But literally believing every over-simplified quote, without analyzing the logic behind it? Nope.

So why does this quote work in almost every motivational speech? I could go even further and say that this saying or belief is the basic premise of nearly every motivational or leadership seminar you ever attended or almost every self-help book…