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Erik Torenberg: Upstream of the Revolution

From the New World

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The Impact of Teal Fellowship on College

I think we're doing such a bad job. If we care about getting the top students out of Harvard or Stanford over the next 10 years, like it doesn't seem like we're making any real progress to doing that. And this is why actually, like Teal looked into creating a university and he said it would just become a copy. It's just too much. He didn't want to compete in the same way. I think that's a shame because Teal Fellowship has had a tremendous impact for the people that went through it. Even people like who previously would have thought it was a joke or you know, beyond the pale, now agree with it. Yet there's like zero

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And I don't actually talk about it that much because I don't love, I don't like the way
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a lot of
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entrepreneurs out there, a lot of coaches out there manipulate people into buying programs and they do it in a way that they use behavioral science to basically manipulate person to spend money that maybe they don't have. And I don't think that's okay. However, I've recently realized that maybe I don't mention this enough because at the end of the day, there's a halfway mark, you know, like you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and spend money on the things that you know via your strategy and authority, not because someone's told you to, that you should be spending money on this thing because it's going to help you become the person. Remember, the identity of the person that's in alignment with their design, manifesting their dreams. You don't know what you don't know. So at some point, you're going to have to get help. At some point, you're going to have to invest money. And I know for me, when I did my master coach program, it was $628 a month that I didn't have, we were living paycheck to paycheck at the time, but I committed to it. And every single month that money was there. So I started to understand that getting out of my comfort zone was really important around money. Now, having said that, where I trained, they did an amazing job of training coaches, but oh my God, they sold you everything, they were just a money making machine. They still are to this day, which is why I don't recommend them anymore. However, did I ever spend another penny on another program? No, I actually, I did one, one that wasn't actually in the mainstream. I didn't do any of the other programs because that's where I boundary lay and I didn't know at the time. That was where my authority was saying, no, it's a no.

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