Most business advice is useless.

After all, entrepreneurship can’t be taught. It’s learning by doing. But what’s the most minimal amount of theory every entrepreneur needs to know?

The internet is the most crowded marketplace in human history.

In such a chaotic place, finding the right investment advice is painful. To this day, I have consumed hundreds of blog articles, YouTube videos, and podcasts about ETFs, stocks, Bitcoin & Co.

My research findings, however, have been depressing:

I had a lot of deep talks with friends and family lately.

Surprisingly, all conversations revolved around the same kind of topics:

• Why am I unhappy?
• What’s the next step in my life?
• How to achieve personal transformation?

At the age of 10, I had a seemingly glorious business idea. I envisioned a voice recorder that turns audio automatically into computer text.

Although I was clueless about how to build this product, I had the urge to share this idea with my father. Then the shock — my father confessed to me that an audio-to-text converter already had been invented.

The good news is that I had enough time to process that shock. The bad news is that, even 20 years later, the same phenomenon keeps happening to me:

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with motivational advice. But thanks to Facebook, Instagram & Co., I’ve got completely tired of it.

To give you a taste, here are some of my least favorites:

• Work hard, play hard
• Life is a grind
• Just keep going
• You can sleep when you’re dead

Masochism at its finest.