I have to be honest, I'm amazed that people will pay so much to learn about dating.
With the group calls that are at the heart of a lot of costly programs, the community engagement and accountability seems to be what people are actually paying for. They can learn just as much from a book but it's the support, hand holding and help where the value is.
I sooooo need to do something like this, even if it is just for a year or two. I too plan to create more digital assets, but a few of these types of programs would help to find the extra money to re-invest into more digital assets.
The conventional approach for recent generations has been:
Go to 12 years of school where you learn practically nothing useful and learn a lot of terrible habits, invest $160,000 in college, get a job that you hate or merely tolerate, and try to read lots of books to educate yourself on the side, slowly.
Coincidentally, I saw a post here on Substack this week about how books are remarkably bad ways of learning something.
That resonated with me.
Books were miraculous when the printing press was first invented.
But they are severely limited, and they don't teach in any of the ways that we (humanity) now believe to be how people learn.
Most people never open the books they buy.
Or they barely start them.
Or they read a decent number of pages but don't remember them.
Or even in the super super rare case where they remember the content, they don't actually change their behavior based on it.
And if your behavior doesn't change, have you really learned?
So I've come to admire people who invest in premium coaching.
And I think I've invested $45k in courses and coaching programs.
It actually makes *way more sense* than the ROI for years at college. And it's way more effective than books.
I haven't invested in myself recently, and I can feel that I'm overdue.
I'd be making better progress if I had. It's still always nerve-wracking though.
“The way to build wealth is to create (or acquire) income-producing assets.” This is my current thinking. Probably building digital income-producing assets that help acquire physical assets.
I have to be honest, I'm amazed that people will pay so much to learn about dating.
With the group calls that are at the heart of a lot of costly programs, the community engagement and accountability seems to be what people are actually paying for. They can learn just as much from a book but it's the support, hand holding and help where the value is.
I sooooo need to do something like this, even if it is just for a year or two. I too plan to create more digital assets, but a few of these types of programs would help to find the extra money to re-invest into more digital assets.
Yeah, my thinking has evolved over the years.
The conventional approach for recent generations has been:
Go to 12 years of school where you learn practically nothing useful and learn a lot of terrible habits, invest $160,000 in college, get a job that you hate or merely tolerate, and try to read lots of books to educate yourself on the side, slowly.
Coincidentally, I saw a post here on Substack this week about how books are remarkably bad ways of learning something.
That resonated with me.
Books were miraculous when the printing press was first invented.
But they are severely limited, and they don't teach in any of the ways that we (humanity) now believe to be how people learn.
Most people never open the books they buy.
Or they barely start them.
Or they read a decent number of pages but don't remember them.
Or even in the super super rare case where they remember the content, they don't actually change their behavior based on it.
And if your behavior doesn't change, have you really learned?
So I've come to admire people who invest in premium coaching.
And I think I've invested $45k in courses and coaching programs.
It actually makes *way more sense* than the ROI for years at college. And it's way more effective than books.
I haven't invested in myself recently, and I can feel that I'm overdue.
I'd be making better progress if I had. It's still always nerve-wracking though.
“The way to build wealth is to create (or acquire) income-producing assets.” This is my current thinking. Probably building digital income-producing assets that help acquire physical assets.
Nice, I'm eager to hear more!
Great article- thanks Ryan!
Really appreciate the mention - thank you 😊