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Mar 27, 11:30 AM
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What are your thoughts on self-improvement videos? Do you watch them? Do you think they actually help people or are they just content farming?

I don't personally watch anything like that and for most self-improvement videos they seem to just be scams but there are a few out there that seem genuinely good like a youtube channel called HealthyGamerGG.
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Mar 27, 11:59 AM
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Whatever works works is my answer. I don’t personally watch them because it seems fairly intuitive what self-improvement is. Physical health? Exercise and eat healthy? Mental health? Take a break or see a therapist. Financial health? Get a job.

My life thankfully is pretty simple, so it is obvious to me how I could achieve my goals.

I do roll my eyes at videos that tell you what Warren Buffett ate for breakfast, as if eating like an 80 year old billionaire will somehow make one wealthy. I also roll my eyes at super masculine videos or videos about how to seduce women.
Mar 27, 12:23 PM
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Never did and probably never will, motivational talk doesn't work on me, no matter how hard they try.

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Mar 27, 4:35 PM
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Never watched any of those, I have no idea if there are some Polish version of it, anything which might be in a tiniest bit be related are videos with exercise/workout program which I just use to exercise on my own but they ain't having any kind of motivational talk/graphics etc.

But there's only one video which gives sudden energy to neva give up! And here I mean Matsuoka Shuzo the classic, the legend, the origin of motivation talk before it became a trend on youtube.
First vid of mentioned guy is the edition with aot ost, the second is the oldest one [original? or the oldest reupload]:

Mar 27, 4:47 PM
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If they wanted you to improve yourself they wouldn't keep churning out clickbait shite for you to spend hours of your day on.
Mar 27, 4:54 PM
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I don't like them.

I feel like the only way someone can truly want to self-improve themselves is from within and by extension the steps to take to get to that point should be unique to the individual and something they themselves came up with and feel a connection to and thus are able to stay committed to it since it was their own ideas and resolve.

Mar 27, 5:29 PM
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cool and useful if you are young
obvious, repetitive and useless if you are over 25 years old
Mar 27, 10:53 PM
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I enjoy watching Jordan Peterson videos, from time to time. That's about it, though.

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Mar 27, 10:56 PM
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I hate to break it to you guys but if you wanna improve yourself you need to stop watching self-improvement videos and start self-improving yourself.
Mar 28, 11:44 AM

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Most of them are full of empty platitudes or are trying to sell you something, be that a product or an ideology.
Take care of yourself

Mar 28, 12:00 PM

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if u cant motivate urself ig vids are goo for u
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