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You Should Stop Reading This.

Stop being hustled by #hustleporn.

Steve QJ
2 min readMay 13, 2020

No seriously, you really should.

Every second that you spend scrolling through this, every word that you read, even this one, is keeping you from doing something more important.

I’m sure you’ve got your reasons. Maybe you’re searching for that final push to get you started, maybe you’re hoping to find a shortcut to succeeding at whatever you should be doing instead of continuing to read this. Maybe you just like reading.

Either way, spoiler alert; there are no shortcuts hidden here. No hidden doors or revolving bookcases. The shortest path to the things that you want is to stop hoping for strangers on the internet to tell you what to do and just start doing your thing.

Remember, self-help is a business, not a charity. Almost everything you’ll find under the #lifelessons or #productivity or #dontstopthehustle tags on your internet procrastination space of choice, has been written by people trying to monetise your craving to succeed. But as Chris Rock tells us; “Ain’t no money in the cure, the money’s in the medicine.”

Laying out the secret to success, even if they could, would be like a therapist who only charged for the first 5 minutes, or an iPhone as indestructible as a Nokia 3310, that didn’t get slower…

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

Written by Steve QJ

Race. Politics. Culture. Sometimes other things. Almost always polite. Find more at https://steveqj.substack.com

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