Similar to many famous "how to get rich" advisors.
If their get-rich-quick pump-and-dump schemes actually worked, they'd have a lot better things to do with their time than evangelize Bitcoin and Ethereum and ICOs and NFTs in online forums.
I guess this is for my self too. My thinking is I’d be a wildly different person if I not only fell for shills peddling stuff and “successful experts” selling courses. On top of that, keeping the money in risky investments is a whole other thing. Like staking a big stake of money in Bitcoin or Eth for the past 5+ years without cashing out. Or still having tons of money in dogecoin without cashing out.
Of course I too wish I made tons of easy money. The fact that a friend bought into dogecoin a month ago and I didn’t. Means I’m never going to do this sort of stuff. Same friend/acquaintance wants me to buy into dogecoin during the next dip. Which to him is dropping ~15%. He wants me to buy in at 45+ cents. It’s at 55 cents right now after rising like 40% or something in a couple of days. He’s probably going to max out his credit cards to buy more dogecoin before Elon Musk’s SNL appearance.
I am very tempted to buy in to dogecoin as well just for the hype of him. Sell before he actually presents. We’ll see.
I don't really have respect for people who haven't actually accomplished anything aside from a grift. I do read books like Principals by Ray Dalio or I Love Capitalism! by Ken Langone.
I don’t think having there’s anything wrong with having some sort of social interaction coach or the equivalent to help learn what the social norms around dating are. Although not usually for dating, that is a form of therapy that can be helpful for people on the autism spectrum who may have trouble understanding the social cues on their own.
If you're looking for something long term why seek advice from someone that's chronically single but an expert at "dating". And if someone has been married a long time, they probably don't know anything about the current "dating scene". But if you just want to learn to hook up with lots of people then maybe they have something to teach you.
Why seek advice on diabetes from a doctor who isn't diabetic?
Bizarre objection to make.
If your objection is that you are looking for a long-term relationship instead of pick-up skills, and you are not satisfied with the replies that state the supposed confidence boost from learning pick-up dynamics, there are also plenty of resources exclusively focusing on finding and maintaining long-term relationships, such as the one above.
It's very easy to Not Give a F** when you've always had rich parents to support you. As if your known to come from money you'll have no shortage of people who want to get to know you.
It's all trash anyway. The only thing that fixed my dating life was dropping 70 pounds in my 20s. Also fixed my blood sugar! Without the chronic back pain I'm happier too.
This was very hard though and took 6 months or so. I doubt ' Fix your life in 6 to 12 months by making hard choices ' would sell all that well. These books offer quick fixes which aren't practical.
The best trick he pulled with "Models" is selling it as a book about dating, when it's really just about developing self-respect.
I didn't know he was wealthy, but his stories aren't all that removed from your average white college guy in the 2000s. The advice he offers isn't dependent on your income. It's not like "4 hour work week" where the secret was just to pay people to take care of basic tasks and free up your time.
That's only possible if you are born into money. Even then he avoids giving out concrete advice. If I'm going to spend 20$ on a book I might as well read one by a billionaire.
I haven't read "Art of not..." because it came off as one of those books cashing in on "stoicism for bros". As I understand it, that's the book that made him truly famous.
My original comment refers only to what he wrote in "Models", which was written several years earlier. I would much sooner read a book about dating from a relatively average looking, average seeming guy than somebody who never had problems dating to begin with.
Weight loss would be another example. Everybody knows that you should eat less and exercise more, but those things are hard to improve at, so instead many people gravitate to gimmicky fad diets that won't work but are much easier to try.
I'd question this. It's my impression that this is currently the last self help hype - at least it was two years or so ago.
The gospel is that you have punish and torture yourself to accomplish something. You have to "leave the comfort zone" but in a particularly strenuous, masochistic fashion. The pain is then a signal interpreted as being on the right path.
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