Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 914. And in today's episode,

we are talking about something which may, which may push up against your values, your belief systems. And I never really

apologize for doing so, because you can disagree with me. It's okay to disagree with people.

And in fact, in the second half of this episode, it's going to be a question as to the types

of information that you're getting. So feel free to totally

disregard this if it does not resonate with you. But maybe if you stick around and just notice

what I'm saying, because ultimately this episode is when self-help or self-development gets harmful.

So let's really dive into it.

When does self-development or self-help become a bit of a problem?

Let me give you an analogy first.

Let's just say you have something wrong within you on a physiological level.

And in other words, you have a pain somewhere. Now, I don't think, unless you're in a very certain situation or you're very, very trained, that you wouldn't do

self-surgery, right? It's not something that you'd typically go to straight away if you had an

ailment in your body. Because number one, you're not a surgeon or maybe not a doctor. Number two,

you because you're not trained, you wouldn't be able to do any of the surgery and it's going to be pretty dangerous, right?

You'll be, without being graphic, you're digging around not knowing what you're doing.

It's not going to end very well. So of course you'd absolutely never do self surgery.

Let's take it into another context. Let's say you know, like me, I know nothing about cars.

I hear the words around cars like carburetor, if that's the word, obviously gears and all those types of things, the engine.

But if something goes wrong with my car, I'm not going to put up the hood, or in England,

the bonnet, and start just turning things. I'm digging around and figuring out what's,

like, if I just unplug this I'm gonna just see what

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