Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own. — Bruce Lee
There are a lot of synonyms people use to describe making their life better.
Personal development.
Personal improvement.
Personal growth.
They all claim to be personal, although it doesn’t always feel that way.
Most books in this industry offer a methodology, backed by science or testimonials, to help someone achieve their desired outcome.
While thousands of people may resonate with any given approach, it does not have to work for you. We all have unique personalities, live in different environments, and are at distinct stages of life.
One person could follow the same methodology as someone else and get different results.
We could try the same suggestion that we made twenty years ago and get different results today.
Yet these methodologies aren’t useless, either. We can treat these as recipes rather than binary prescriptions and question each ingredient.
Does this resonate?
Will this be helpful in my situation?
Learning different recipes allows us to cobble together different ingredients and make our own unique recipe.
Most problems have multiple solutions; experiment with different options to discover what works best.