Is This Sincere or Just a Ploy for Money?

In this video, Matt watches a video explaining how you should invest in yourself. While this could be good advice, is it just a way for this person to get you to “invest” in a course that will actually do nothing for you?

There are tons of people out on social media giving business advice. Some of it is good advice, but most of it isn’t good. In this series watch CapForge’s owner react to different advice videos. He’s an expert in all things business and has 20+ years of experience under his belt. Some of the things he reacts to might even surprise you!

Video Transcript: 

Business Advice Video: 

If you look at the people that you admire, the people that are doing things that you one day see yourself doing. If you look at those people, what are they doing to invest in themselves? And if you see that and you can know that this is what they’re doing to invest in themselves, what are you doing? So if that person is reading four books a month but you’re not reading any book a month, what does that say to you? If that person is investing in courses and doing all of these things on a monthly basis, that you are doing none or you only doing the bare minimum, what does this mean? We start moving. We start moving into investing in themselves. We literally start replicating and learning from the things that the people that we look up to are doing. And saying I’m gonna take that practice in my life and I’m going to start upscaling myself and I’m gonna go as hard.

Matt’s Review: 

Okay, that advice seems a little self-serving because the general advice is invest in yourself by buying courses. And I suspect that somewhere in her profile or links or whatever there’s a course or two for sale there. So I’m not sure I completely by her sincerity in suggesting that you invest in yourself when she also potentially has a course for sale. I could be wrong but that’s my guess. And the reality is I know a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of business owners who are in the 7-figure club, 8-figure club, and a lot of them never read a book. A lot of them never take a course. It may work for some people and if you’re just getting started and you don’t know what you’re doing or you don’t have any good ideas or you need help then there are definitely people who can help, books that can help, mentors that can help. But that’s not always the answer. And that’s not how everybody got there. And you can certainly model yourself after people who never picked up a book or never paid for a single course. And I learn lots of them and a lot of them are very very successful. So investing in yourself can take a lot of different forms and it doesn’t necessarily require you to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a course.