Have you ever wondered that a lot of content related to your day to day life and longevity is created and published by companies rather than individuals? Naturally, there is a lot of places where you want it to be the case! Hospitals, research centres etc. However, you’ll see content on “How to live your life” from any company nowadays. Seems to be trendy.
If I would get a dollar for every post on LinkedIn of “Top 5 tips on how to be happy in life”, “Top 7 tips on what successful people do” etc. I could afford to listen to Warren Buffett’s advice on investing.
I swear to god there is a world registry with “50 tips of what successful people do” and companies bidding on which can publish which tip. Luckily, “Waking up at 4 am and going for a run every morning.” fell from 11th place to 46th place, so you can get it for cheap. To be fair, it’s fairly cheap advice.
A legal entity doesn’t have anxiety, problems with diet and with lack of motivation to exercise. It doesn’t have destroyed knees or problems with family or friends (regardless of their knee status). A manufacturing company telling you how to exercise, giving you any advice about a diet or about mental health is like me trying to tell birds how to flap with their wings more efficiently. They would probably tell me to get lost.
Who creates the content matters. Because it can make it relatable – hey this person has been getting through years of anxieties and they know what it is like, they know that taking three deep breaths won’t help.
What I’m trying to say is that a lot of content doesn’t help and can be fairly toxic. At least it doesn’t help me. What helped me is to find people I find reliable and relatable and follow their advice. But the problem of finding those can be as complex as Buffett’s “Invest into companies with good management”.
Just above average 