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True, know why? Because there is nothing to deliver.And that's the problem with all these online courses teaching alternative/mindset/holistic/whatever concepts.
Overpriced and underdelivered.
Unless the course is teaching a technical skill, like programming, they're usually bogus.
Source: got a shitload of Udemy courses that are bogus.
The whole field is a bunch of blah blah, smoke and snake oil that everybody mixes together in a slightly different way.
But you know what? People eat it up. Because it's better than the truth.
The truth about productivity? "Hey, to be productive, do the work!". Everything else is smoke. Take one thing, do it, then another.
Did I blow your mind or what?
But you can't make a course or a book with one sentence, so gotta fluff it up.
And people love to consume the same thing over and over. That feeling of accomplishing, amirite?
I'm currently reading a couple of books in the field. We're talking books which sold millions of copies and contain real information. Useful shit.
And still they are 95% fluff because that's what the field is.
Authors take the content of a 90 minute presentation, turn it into a fluff book, and use it to book corporate speaking gigs for tens of thousands.
Why? Because corporate people are not stupid and won't waste time reading a book when they can get the juice in 90 minutes.
OP, I went through the course.
- People want videos. The same material in video form would be taken much more seriously.
- Too little, too little detail. Really dig into the ideas, one at a time, and build a concrete framework.
- I liked one of the first ideas, where you talked about output/input. Measuring things is always good. But then you go into fluff like the Pareto principle and lose that good thread.