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Originally Posted by Markus74  Paul:
Books are ok. They're not that expensive and they do have some decent advice. And if people want to buy one after the other until their rooms break, that's their choice.
But the seminars are mostly scams. People get lured with promises that are unlikely to realize. And of course that's never the fault of the course but of the people! People pay ridiculous amounts of money for something they could read in a book or that even everyone with common sense could tell them. The self-help gurus package it nicely though and get people in a sort of collective trance that wears of the moment they're confronted with reality again. All the while the gurus are laughing all their way to the bank.
These self-help gurus are like priests that you pay so they will tell you something motivating, nice and comforting. But the prices are ridiculous. A lot of simple people have to save for a long time so they can afford them and then only get the same blabla that's in the books. Their naivety gets milked.
For some people these seminars may work, but for most they don't. And they're cult like. And if you fail, it's your fault. The Theory/Law cannot fail. The Theory/Law is always right. So maybe you need a second seminar to get it. Or a third one. Just bring us your money.
Or maybe just a friend who will kick your ass so you wake up, stop whining and get a grip at life again. |
Really? Have you been to a Tony Robbins seminar? I have. I had to fly to a different city, pay for the flight, pay for the hotel fees for 3 nights on top of the seminar fees. There was some of that motivational rah-rah stuff you talk about but it was fun! It kept the energy of the room up for the 3 days as we were taught a LOT of material so it was pretty exhausting. We didn't do firewalking but we did board breaking for anyone who wanted to. It was kinda cool for me, but what really inspired me was when I saw some of the ladies there do it when they were very small framed and had hardly any muscle on them, some of them being in their later years. Nobody was forced to do anything, but they totally wanted to do it and they did it as part of an exercise on overcoming fear.
I totally loved the seminar and didn't feel ripped off at all. The stuff I learned has helped me tremendously in my business and I've used it over the last 4-5 years since the seminar.
So, I'm not really sure what scam seminars you're referring to. I also went to a Deepak Chopra one here locally and that was awesome too and it was only $90. The only people I hear talking about seminars being scams are the people who haven't been to one.