Idiotic Advice From An Unexpected Source
The editors over at Entrepreneur.com are a bunch of god damn geniuses. Day after day they crank out new articles, many of them with numbered lists in the titles, all on the subject of how to succeed in business. And day after day people gobble this stuff up, in the same way those insatiable housewives read every issue of Cosmo for their fix of 10 New Ways to Drive Their Man Wild in Bed.
Sarcasm
aside – a rarity around here – Entrepreneur’s cadre of contributors regularly come
through with some quality advice. The only thing that is usually lacking is the
electric shock reinforcement therapy for a certain unnamed person around here
who forgets the advice faster than it takes to read the article.
So when
an article like the one I just read gets published I have to call it out. 18 Unusual Habits That
Boost Your Energy More Than Coffee reads like an internal moral struggle on
the part of the writer who can’t decide if he should give real advice or just
go for the affiliate clicks. As most of us do when our conscience is at odds
with itself, the guy tries to do both, hoping the good stuff will in the long
run make up for the instant gratification of the bad stuff. Come on, I’ll make you breakfast in bed.
Question: Why 18 Unusual Habits?
Couldn’t
think of two more for an even 20? Didn’t want to miss out on any affiliate
clicks by rounding down to 10 or 12 or even 15?
Here’s
what the author – and Co-Founder of
Empact – had to say: “To understand unique and healthy ways to
consistently and quickly boost energy daily, I interviewed the country’s top
ambitious young entrepreneurs, honorees
of the Empact Showcase…”
Nice
self-promo there.