{"id":852,"date":"2008-10-14T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/the-purpose-of-this-website-is-to-lose-its-readers\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:47:03","slug":"the-purpose-of-this-website-is-to-lose-its-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/the-purpose-of-this-website-is-to-lose-its-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of This Website is to Lose Its Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I might be committing blogging suicide by saying this, but I feel the purpose of this blog is to eventually lose all its readers.\u00c2\u00a0 I fully expect that, at some point, every person who subscribed to read my thoughts will eventually unsubscribe.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u2019m completely fine with that.<\/p>\n

The point of any source of information, whether it\u2019s a writer like me, a mentor or a teacher is to eventually outgrow what you\u2019re reading.\u00c2\u00a0 Get injected with new ideas, internalize the ideas you like, discard the ones you don\u2019t like and then move on.\u00c2\u00a0 You move on, not because the ideas weren\u2019t great, but because you\u2019ve absorbed them fully enough that there isn\u2019t anything left.<\/p>\n

Cycling Through Blogs and Books<\/h2>\n

Very few of the blogs I initially subscribed to when I started reading online, I am still subscribed to.\u00c2\u00a0 The ones I have stuck with are usually because I\u2019ve made connections with the author, and I like to see what they are doing personally, not because I still get a lot of value from their ideas.<\/p>\n

The same is true of books and speakers.\u00c2\u00a0 When I started getting involved in personal development, I read and listened to a lot of Zig Ziglar\u2019s books on goal-setting.\u00c2\u00a0 Now it\u2019s been a few years since I\u2019ve read any of his writing, and I\u2019ll notice areas I disagree with him.<\/p>\n

The reason I stopped reading Zig Ziglar wasn\u2019t because I didn\u2019t enjoy him as an author, or that I feel the ideas he shared weren\u2019t worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the ideas he wrote about goal setting greatly influenced my own thinking on the topic.\u00c2\u00a0 But now that those ideas are integrated into my philosophy of life, I don\u2019t need to revisit them as much.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time you read, you\u2019re exposed to new ideas and forced to grow.\u00c2\u00a0 The 1000th time you read, you\u2019re reinforcing what\u2019s already there and stagnating.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m picking on Zig Ziglar a bit, but the same is true of virtually every author I\u2019ve come in contact with and really enjoyed.\u00c2\u00a0 I loved their writing in the beginning, but after some time, I felt it was just a repetition of what I already know.<\/p>\n

Another example for me is Steve Pavlina, when I first read his work about five years ago, it completely changed my thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel most of his newer ideas are as interesting, not because they are bad ideas, but simply because I\u2019ve ingested enough of his ideas to understand them.\u00c2\u00a0 His popularity is probably still growing because many people are finding him for the first time, as I did half a decade ago.<\/p>\n

A good author should be the victim of their own success, changing how people think enough that they become boring.<\/p>\n

The Cycle of Ideas<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m using some self-help examples, but really this is a cycle I see all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 I really enjoyed Ayn Rand\u2019s, The Fountainhead<\/em>, because it exposed me to some ideas I hadn\u2019t considered before and forced me to think.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked Atlas Shrugged<\/em> a bit less because those ideas were repeated.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I don\u2019t have any strong desire to read her other books.<\/p>\n

I read a lot of pop-evolutionary biology books too, now I mostly avoid the topic.\u00c2\u00a0 Not because I don\u2019t find it fascinating, but simply because most authors in the genre repeat the same ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 What starts out new and revolutionary quickly becomes the status quo.<\/p>\n

Many of the great works in literature and non-fiction considered classics are downright boring to read.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because they were so successful that imitation and expansion on their starting point makes them the ordinary instead of new.<\/p>\n

Outgrowing Ideas<\/h2>\n

I believe the purpose of ideas are to outgrow them.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to say that they were incorrect, but to completely internalize the ones you agree with, so they no longer require thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 When I became a vegetarian almost 3 years ago, I read a lot of books on the health and environmental benefits of the lifestyle.<\/p>\n

After agreeing with most of what was written, and changing my behavior, I don\u2019t need to read more books promoting the lifestyle.\u00c2\u00a0 If anything, I should be reading books on the benefits of eating meat, or evidence that forces me to rethink my position.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u2019s better to read books you disagree with<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The concept of outgrowing an idea often isn\u2019t a popular one.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the people view their love for a particular idea the same way they would love a person.\u00c2\u00a0 They cherish the idea, visit it often and stay loyal to it forever.\u00c2\u00a0 But ideas aren\u2019t people.\u00c2\u00a0 They are inanimate pieces of thought designed to help the real people live better lives.\u00c2\u00a0 And if you can\u2019t outgrow your ideas, you can\u2019t grow as a person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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