Yes,you heard me right !!!

Reading books will not make you smart.

Watching motivational videos will not make you driven.

Writing will not make your thoughts clearer.

We are not shaped by these things.

We are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves.

Reading books isn't the answer. The answer is what we take away from them.

Writing isn't the answer to clarity.

The answer lies in whether we write to get more at peace or whether we write to seek validation.

Motivational videos certainly aren't the answer even though i make a bunch every week.

The video we turn our life into after watching those videos is the answer.

Nothing changes until we change what lives between our two ears.

We know others through their actions.

We know ourselves through our thoughts.

What others are thinking , we don't know. We only know what they are doing .

That is exactly what they see when they look at us- what we do, instead of what we think.

We may have a hundred plans, but, what others see is the one we are executing.

Plans are plain without performance.

Thoughts are powerful, when they are converted into actions.

Without action, they are simply broken promises.

We nod to show that we are listening.

But we are not listening to our mind telling us what to say.

When we listen, do we truly listen or are we preparing a response in our heads?

When we listen, are we coming with an open mind, or just a closed book that knows all the answers?

When we listen, do we intend to help or do we just want to impose our point of view?

We nod to show we are listening to respond.

However, what if we nodded to purely listen to what others have truly convey?

What if we nodded to understand what's coming in, instead of structuring what we had already planned?

The same way reading books doesn't maked you smart.

The thing which will make you smarter is how and what you grab from books after reading it.

There is a saying

Daily progress isn't about becoming an expert in your field.

It is developing the mindset that progress is a way of life.

It is like breathing.

We rarely stop to acknowledge it.

But we breathe every second.

We would die without it.

Just choose that who you spend time with, wisely!

Either just by reading books or learning something from it.