Brian tracy is a fucking legened

[Hojo]

@OBEler does he only read? For 35 years? 2 books a day is an entire day or hes reading children's books.

[UnbornTao]

21 hours ago, OBEler said:

6000 is pretty few. My brother reads 1- 2 books a day for 35 years. That makes over 25.000 books.

I find that incredibly hard to believe, unless the books are very short and/or he breezes through them.

In any case, he likely reads a ton, so that's probably good.

Edited yesterday at 06:54 PM by UnbornTao

[Leo Gura]

8 hours ago, Ramanujan said:

nah. if you read a lot you will find it. many unknown books that are not heard of exist . brian tracy read for 3 hours a day for 50 years

I struggle every day to find books worth reading. Most books I start I have to quit because they are just not worth the time.

These days when I find one great new book it feels like Christmas morning to me.

Edited yesterday at 08:35 PM by Leo Gura

[OBEler]

22 minutes ago, Hojo said:

@OBEler does he only read? For 35 years? 2 books a day is an entire day or hes reading children's books.

 

3 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

I find that incredibly hard to believe, unless the books are very short and/or he breezes through them.

In any case, he likely reads a ton, so that's probably good.

No these books are normal size. He reads all kinds of books. Fantasy, Roman for entertainment. No self development books. No children books of course.

[AION]

Tracy’s books are so superficial that you can basically feed it to Claude and it will summarize his book 1 or 2 pages. And you will have a more coherent retainment. I usually screen the books with my special template. Only if it is worth, I will engage it myself. AI is a powerful assistant but almost nobody is using it the right way.  

Edited 14 hours ago by AION

[Ramanujan]

12 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I struggle every day to find books worth reading. Most books I start I have to quit because they are just not worth the time.

These days when I find one great new book it feels like Christmas morning to me.

yup 

facts

good self improvment books are very few. its rare

 

[Ramanujan]

20 hours ago, Cireeric said:

Reading tons of mostly stage-orange self-improvement books still isnt a good indicator for some more ambitious and holistic definition of personal-development. His center of gravity still seems to be orange after all these years of reading and studying. 

a good self improvment book is a good self improvment book. dont care about which stage it is in. besides name a yellow books

when i look at legendary self help books like   think and grow rich , 7 habits of highly effective people , getting things done. , success principles etc , i dont give  a shit  what spiral it is in.  i care about whether the book will take me from a  bad position in life to a good position in life. i care whether the book help me get what i want.  i care whether book brings me money. i care about whether the book brings me  the good life 

 

 

only mediocre self help junkies care which stage of spiral a book is in

 

a greate self help book is a greate self help books

think and grow rich , 7 habits , success principles are all timeless classic

 

 

 

i am in stage  yellow by the way. i am suffering from unemployment and lack of degree because of listening to some of the "stage yellow teachers"

Edited 12 hours ago by Ramanujan

[Ramanujan]

20 hours ago, AION said:

@Ramanujan his content is very fluffy and geared towards the masses.

he put in 50,000 + hours into studying self improvment

you better take him seriously 

his content look fluffy  because you are in a low stage of self improvment

[Ramanujan]

1 hour ago, AION said:

Tracy’s books are so superficial that you can basically feed it to Claude and it will summarize his book 1 or 2 pages. And you will have a more coherent retainment. I usually screen the books with my special template. Only if it is worth, I will engage it myself. AI is a powerful assistant but almost nobody is using it the right way.  

i read 15% of his book eat that frog and so far its a masterpiece. i highlighted every paragraph. cant wait to read more of his books

[Ramasta9]

On 10/22/2025 at 1:19 AM, Ramanujan said:

brian tracy read 6000 books and is into self improvment for 50+ years. i advise everyone to check him out

Osho read 100,000, thus a far greater legend? 

8D

[Ramasta9]

And from those 100 thousand he said only a handful were actually worth it and valuable to the truth he later realized in life, and even so, none are / were actually needed. In the end, less is ultimately more.

[Ramasta9]

Here's another perspective for ya..

I have a friend who reads a book a day roughly, she has probably read more than 6000 easily, but you know what? she doesn't really know anything about life, she's just full of knowledge, because she rarely has or makes the time to reflect and apply the teachings, and integrate, and almost every discussion turns into an argument with her, because she's a (know it all), a common-trait among those who read a lot and act as if they know or understand life, yet little wisdom is there, for they never applied or integrated the teachings themselves, there is no embodiment, so there lacks wisdom, which is the foundation of what truly lands in people.

Yet her partner, is the opposite, he has read 2 books in the last 10 years, and he is full of wisdom, still opening a page of those same two books and reflecting for a while on each passage, we get along really well, in fact he's become my closest friend.

He doesn't have as much knowledge as she does in her big brain, but he understands nature and life much deeper and navigates life far smoother throughout reality, almost nothing gets under his skin or stresses him out, more embodied than mental.

So if you think reading 6000 self-improvement books is impressive, I just revealed why its not as much as you think.

Rather it only reveals the opposite is true, that person I wouldn't even consider someone to check out, rather I would be more interested from the smiling man who feeds the pigeons at the park daily, he feels and sees something most are missing.

Edited 11 hours ago by Ramasta9

[AION]

1 hour ago, Ramanujan said:

he put in 50,000 + hours into studying self improvment

you better take him seriously 

his content look fluffy  because you are in a low stage of self improvment

To be frank, you don’t seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer to be saying such things. Read the room. 😭

[Rigel]

Check him out for what?

[Ramanujan]

1 hour ago, Ramasta9 said:

Osho read 100,000, thus a far greater legend? 

8D

Nah. It's not possible. There isint even 10,000 books in spirituality

He exxagerate it

Even if he read, he would have gone to yoga as yoga is superiour to meditation

 

If I was osho I would have jumped right to yoga

[Ramanujan]

1 hour ago, Ramasta9 said:

And from those 100 thousand he said only a handful were actually worth it and valuable to the truth he later realized in life, and even so, none are / were actually needed. In the end, less is ultimately more.

You are missing the point. 

He is into self improvements for 50 years and have put 50,000 hours of learning into self improvement

That makes him a fucking legend

Only less than 10 giants out there in self improvment that are in those levels

[Ramasta9]

1 minute ago, Ramanujan said:

Nah. It's not possible. There isint even 10,000 books in spirituality

He exxagerate it

Even if he read, he would have gone to yoga as yoga is superiour to meditation

 

If I was osho I would have jumped right to yoga

Possibly but he read all sorts of books, not only spirituality, he was known to be the genius child in university who could read multiple books a day, his mind was wired different, and from birth he was teaching his teachers and telling them they were wrong, many times proving the professors wrong.

There is no superior / inferior, its all about embodied presence / awareness.

[Ramanujan]

1 hour ago, Ramasta9 said:

Here's another perspective for ya..

I have a friend who reads a book a day roughly, she has probably read more than 6000 easily, but you know what? she doesn't really know anything about life, she's just full of knowledge, because she rarely has or makes the time to reflect and apply the teachings, and integrate, and almost every discussion turns into an argument with her, because she's a (know it all), a common-trait among those who read a lot and act as if they know or understand life, yet little wisdom is there, for they never applied or integrated the teachings themselves, there is no embodiment, so there lacks wisdom, which is the foundation of what truly lands in people.

Brian Tracy applied what he teach. He started as a high school dropout and then become a millionare

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Ramasta9 said:

 

Yet her partner, is the opposite, he has read 2 books in the last 10 years, and he is full of wisdom, still opening a page of those same two books and reflecting for a while on each passage, we get along really well, in fact he's become my closest friend.

He doesn't have as much knowledge as she does in her big brain, but he understands nature and life much deeper and navigates life far smoother throughout reality, almost nothing gets under his skin or stresses him out, more embodied than mental.

So if you think reading 6000 self-improvement books is impressive, I just revealed why its not as much as you think.

Rather it only reveals the opposite is true, that person I wouldn't even consider someone to check out, rather I would be more interested from the smiling man who feeds the pigeons at the park daily, he feels and sees something most are missing.

 

Brian Tracy is a well respected person in the self improvment industry. He is a legend. His material is being studied by many people. His content has made many millionares. He applied what he teach. He started as a high school dropout and working in dumb jobs to becoming a millionare and running seminars for many big corporations

 

If you have a high knowledge and understand on self improvment, then only you can appreciate the wisdom of Brian Tracy

Noobs can't understand his value

 

 

 

 

 

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[Ramanujan]

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1 hour ago, AION said:

To be frank, you don’t seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer to be saying such things. Read the room. 😭

I am knowledgeable enough to talk what I am talking about

[Cireeric]

4 hours ago, Ramanujan said:

when i look at legendary self help books like   think and grow rich , 7 habits of highly effective people , getting things done. , success principles etc , i dont give  a shit  what spiral it is in.  i care about whether the book will take me from a  bad position in life to a good position in life. i care whether the book help me get what i want.  i care whether book brings me money. i care about whether the book brings me  the good life 

 

Im not denying that there is valuable stuff in there and I would recommand to read all the ones you mentioned, but at some point you wont gain much more value by reading hundreds of personal-development books. After reading 10-25 of the best you will get the gist of it and it becomes pretty repetitive. Nowadays Im bored to death if I read a classical self-development book. Implementation of the few ideas that will really make a difference in your life is much more important. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Cireeric