If you truly want it, you will find answers to this questions and let actions follow. If you only ask those questions and do nothing to reach your goal, you wont reach it.
That is the point of this statement.
That is the point of this statement.
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I understood the point of his statement. It was a stupid statement because in fact it's not enough to "truly" want something -- it's helpful but not enough.
It was an insulting statement because it sets him up to tell anyone who fails that they didn't truly want it. There's little more offensive than someone telling someone else that he knows their mind better than they do.
But the thing that I was really objecting to wasn't the insult or the stupidity, it was the rhetorical flourish of "promising." As obviously he has nothing on the line here, and if anyone was dumb enough to believe him, and they failed, he'd be out exactly nothing.
Hm.. interesting, you made me notice that in my interpretation "truly wanting" something implies letting it follow actions. And not letting it follow actions implies not truly wanting it.
But apparently it is inevitable that you will make a ton of money. Unless, apparently, you don't want to.