Spamming a link into every group he could find earned him a three day ban and nothing else, and Matt Hale writes that up as the beginner mistake it was instead of pretending he knew better. The honesty is the point, and it makes the rest of his advice easier to trust.
His best idea concerns belief in four stages. Hope, belief, definite and certainty, with most people stuck on the first two, which are comfortable and achieve very little beyond opening a door. Putting those words in order like that beats another instruction to believe in yourself.
The post on making your hours count argues for doing more by doing less, and he describes a week spent in his room absorbing everything he could find before acting on any of it.
One post promotes a commission system and reads as advertising.
Read the four stages post. It gives you something to test yourself against.