When to Ignore People

Who am I and why should you listen to me?

I’ve created a business which does $60,000/year which I’m currently scaling to six figures working FROM HOME for a couple of hours a day.

I’ve explained it all for free on Youtube and am currently teaching people in my Skool community to do the same.

With that out of the way, let’s get into the topic for this letter.

Goal Dissonance

Goal dissonance is the word that I use when I’m trying to explain to people why they should be avoiding 99% of people’s advice.

Would you take financial advice from a homeless man?

Would you take fashion advice from a nerd?

Would you take relationship advice from your friend who’s never been in one?

No, because you guys have goal dissonance.

They either don’t want what you want or they don’t know how to get it. Either way, bad person to go to for advice.

Most people understand this in contained contexts but fail to apply this generally.

Making lots of money is like my main thing and it always hurts me to see people who have the same goal but end up taking highly suboptimal paths towards it because they took advice from the wrong person.

I wanted to earn (still do) $10k/month working from my laptop on my own business for a couple hours a day.

I don’t know anyone in real life who has achieved this goal, but I know a lot of people online who’ve done the same.

So I chose to follow the advice of those who’ve done it instead of those who haven’t.

Currently, I’m only a few steps away from achieving that ideal.

Had I gone to my own friends and family for advice, I wouldn’t even be 1/10th of the way through.

Hurts to say and hear, but your loved ones are probably not the right ones to go to for advice on your goals because most likely, they haven’t achieved what you’re trying to achieve.

Blanket statement and Shelf Life

The other thing I want to emphasize in this letter is the futility of blanket statements.

“Become an engineer/doctor/lawyer and your career path is set”

First of all, do these people have any idea about the job market for engineers these days?

Anybody who’s actually an expert at something understands the importance of nuance.

Anybody who’s not an expert in it, understands that they have to say a blanket statement to sound smart.

We are living in a world of accelerated progress than ever before.

I personally know 18 year olds making thousands of dollars a month working from home on their own business.

Any specific advice or step-by-step instructions get outdated very quickly.

Blanket statements on the other hand are either too generic to be of any help at all or they are catered to the average person.

If you’re reading this, you’re likely not the average person with average goals.

Learn to ignore this type of advice and the people that give it.

Advice is overrated anyway, experimentation and iteration is where it’s at.

Hope this helped.