Santa claus, tooth fairy, easter bunny

And the adult version of the same myth, dating coaches who get laid just like they claimed in their reports/blogs. For reasons unknown to me, adults seem to throw logic and reasoning out the window when they go on these self-improvement journeys. What they don't realize, in their drive to better themselves, is that they are enriching others in the process, who are telling them what they want to hear instead of taking the necessary steps of improving themselves.

Perhaps others have asked this already, if these self-improvement gurus (I'm lumping dating coaches in this) are so successful at doing whatever they are doing, why are they still working at their ripe old age? Take Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, and so on... These guys have been at this for longer than I've been alive and yet, they are still out there in the talk show circuit hawking their wares, still writing books, still giving lectures, and still trying to make a buck. Whatever happened to applying what they teach to live out their twilight years basking in the glory of their success?!

Of course they are not, because they are sucking at their lives. A similar parallel can be drawn with palm readers, fortune tellers, and those ilks. If they only apply what they tell others, and what they talk about is truly useful and applicable, they wouldn't still be working. Somehow, in the human psyche, people have so much fear and deep-seated insecurities, they constantly go out to seek external affirmation, paternal validation, and maternal reassurance that they can do whatever they need to do in their lives.

Take seduction, if getting girls is such a difficult activity, we wouldn't have over six billions people on earth today. But with so much disposable income, people are now engaging life coaches, dating coaches, and every thing in between just to go about their daily lives. They all think that by doing this, they can divorce themselves from society by taking that proverbial 'red pill' to leave the matrix. When in reality, they are only deluding themselves into believing in myths and fantasies, as though they are living the waking dream.

Are there some people who are more successful? Are there people who are richer? Are there people who have more sex partners? Sure. Just as there are pro-sport stars and there are some who can dunk in basketball, instead of trying to be like those people, I know it's difficult, people need to look within, find out their own strengths, exploit them to overcome their weaknesses. We don't need to be somebody to be happy. We have to start with being happy with who we are first.