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by greggman 3765 days ago
I kind of view him as a coach. I know for me there are many things I could do on my own but I find them much easier with a leader/mentor.
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This is just an opinion so take it for what it is: Tony Robbins is a blowhard, unless your goal is to be a blowhard, he's probably not the best source of inspiration or advice.

Programmers are almost nothing like him, being so confident about things you certainly can't be that confident about, requires being delusional to a considerable degree. As long as enough people buy the shtick, everything is fine.

With programming, it's not like that, you need to be good beyond convincing others that you're good (that seems like the primary difference between people-skills and real-work skills)

So I don't know, I mean, if it's not broken don't fix it, but I'd be genuinely concerned for anyone thinking the way to their happiness and peace is predicated upon TAKING MASSIVE ACTION YEAH!