For years, I’ve been watching educational videos on YouTube thinking that I’m at least utilising my time the right way. Learning things about business, psychology, spirituality, and the likes thereof. Drenching myself with videos of Alex Hormozi, Sam Ovens, and any channel containing the title of making money online. But refrained from watching ‘fun videos’ because that’s not productive, right? At least I’m not wasting any time watching educational videos, right? Little did I know that I was actually draining all of my time watching these so-called educational videos. Because whenever I watched these videos for motivation, I only got motivated to watch another video instead of doing the work. Whenever I tried to watch them in my free time where I needed to relax, they had so much information that I used to get a headache. And I was just stacking more knowledge and information in my brain without taking action which led me to a severe analysis paralysis state. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what to do. In fact, I knew exactly what actions or steps I needed to take that would propel me towards my goals. But I just couldn’t take the first step. Sometimes delaying those actions for weeks even. This made me so guilty and made things worse. And the only way to numb myself from this guilt was to watch more videos because I wanna learn more, right? This is the never-ending loop most people are stuck in. (and I was surely guilty of it too) And most people won’t tell you to drop the habit of watching educational videos. Why? Because most people have to sell you something with those educational videos. And if your favourite guru starts telling you to stop doing that, how can they profit off of you? Another terrible t thing I’ve noticed from my own experience is that whenever I watched educational content without taking much action… I always believed that there was something missing from me. That I lacked some sort of life-changing knowledge. That I needed to learn a little more.