Seeing is Believing Will Just Hold You Back

Evolution has equipped our brains with a very protective and extremely useful concept of “seeing is believing.” Skepticism has kept many of our ancestors alive and without it, many us would be dead. For example, if someone says a mushroom is safe to eat, we may or may not believe him. If though that same person picks up the mushroom and actually eats it, many people would feel comfortable doing the same.

The problem with people is that have extended this same mushroom skepticism to just about everything. Nobody is willing to take a chance or try something unless someone else can either vouch for it or will guarantee success.

On www.rsdnation.com, there’s a forum thread about wanting to see video of instructors “running it.” Some of the guys even demanded to see videos and refused to believe anything until they saw it with their own eyes.

Then one person posted this:


It made me realize that it doesn’t matter if the instructor can or cannot do what he is teaching. Do I really need to see an instructor succeed for me to succeed? No. Just the same as I knew that my business class teacher in college couldn’t run a business, that didn’t prevent me from learning.

Too many guys place artificial obstacles in their path to success; forcing a teacher to have success is just one of them. There’s no good reason why such an obstacle should exist unless someone is picking mushrooms off the ground.

Moreover, what if the instructor or teacher cannot actually do what he teachers? So what. Everything that has ever been done first was always done without a youtube video.