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When neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabe Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and editor-in-chief of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience did the hard work on this. He put his new fake-paper detector to work. After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report in a medRxiv preprint posted on 8 May, are well above levels they calculated for 2010—and far larger than the 2% baseline estimated in a 2022 publishers’ group report.
His findings underscore what was widely suspected: Many scientific manuscripts are from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying for fake papers or undeserved authorship.
Dorothy Bishop an Oxford psych who studies fraudulent publishing practice. said in a May 2nd announcement from the publisher Hindawi underlined the threat: It shut down four of its journals said that “Paper mills have made a fortune by basically attacking a system that has had no idea how to cope with this stuff,” These four journals have been “heavily compromised” by articles from paper mills.
Sabel’s tool relies on just two indicators—authors who use private, noninstitutional email addresses, and those who list an affiliation with a hospital. It isn’t a perfect solution, because of a high false-positive rate. Other developers of fake-paper detectors, who often reveal little about how their tools work, contend with similar issues.
Still, the detectors raise hopes for gaining the advantage over paper mills, which churn out bogus manuscripts containing text, data, and images partly or wholly plagiarized or fabricated, often massaged by ghost writers. Some papers are endorsed by unrigorous reviewers solicited by the authors. Such manuscripts threaten to corrupt the scientific literature, misleading readers and potentially distorting systematic reviews. The recent advent of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT has amplified the concern.
(Two more related questions on scamming your future from those we used to trust the most…and why the sharpest minds don’t like it at all. You can read them below.)
Q. Dr. Hogan, You mentioned in the podcast that PreManipulation (new book) means the demand or desire to be persuaded. You glossed over it. Can you go into a little more detail for me?
People want to be told what to do, whether they have done a good job, how pretty they look, be reassured they made the right decision, be certain their neighborhood will approve, their friends on Instagram will think they made a GOOD CHOICE, etc. Everyone wants the doctor to treat them in a way that gives them the best chance to live and live with a quality life. You ask the server for their advice on food more often.
All of this has been exacerbated because of social media. Look at your Instagram for a minute. You can “heart” someone’s post/picture/video. AND/OR you can comment on it. AND/OR you can share it. That is need for lots of 100% POSITIVE feedback.
That mirrors how parents are raising their kids in 2023. ALWAYS be HYPER-SENSITIVE to their race, their religion, their gender or gender choice.
I will write an article on how to talk with people who aren’t exactly like you in every way, and why you sure shouldn’t feel badly about what color, sex, religion, income level you were born into, because YOU had nothing to do with it.
I propose being genuinely aware and empathetic of all the above and it needs to show in communication. If it doesn’t you work on it.
Today the majority of psychologists only reinforce positive behaviors. But that is not how the human race has grown. From a religious or evolutionary perspective, pleasure and pain, “positive” AND “negative” reinforcement have always been necessary to insure SURVIVAL of human kind.
When you hear someone tell you otherwise, ask them why the IQ of the average American is going DOWN. Ask them WHY they aren’t making more than what they did last year (adjusted for inflation). ASK why Asians in the U.S. have dramatically increased their incomes and IQ’s. Why?
Diversity makes life rich. Understanding it makes it meaningful. Apologizing for it is ridiculous.
Q. Hey Kev, the market rallied the first half of the year. What’s your latest prediction?
A. Predicting the stock market is difficult at best. People are looking for reasons for the market to go up. I can give you a bunch. For example, a good first half of the year following a big down year (which is the case in July 2023) predicts the market will finish even higher from today. This is true in 3/4 of similar situations. Unfortunately there weren’t that many similar situations in the last century. Small sample size makes for lousy data.
On the other hand, you can also note that the 2 year US treasury bond is paying a LOT more than the 10 year treasury bond. That fact has predicted down turns in the markets AND recessions 100% of the time since 1980. All 7 of them… Small sample size makes for lousy data.
I don’t see any real reason for the markets to be higher vs. lower at the end of SEPTEMBER (60%) vs. at the end of 2023. There’s simply less money in the system today than there was one year ago (20 Trillion vs. 19 Trillion). Less money in the system and rising short rates appears to make for a down turn. But who knows. Something could happen in the world that is great that people could latch onto. I’ll say it’s down from July 8, 2023. I also wouldn’t bet the farm or much at all. I’d say it’s about a 55% chance my forecast will turn out to be correct.
Kev, I met you in Warsaw. Your video on the 42 Laws of Persuasion is awesome! How do you determine what a law is vs. a tactic or strategy. How could there be 42 laws when there were only 9 when you started?
There are now 61 catalogued.
A law is a predictable, reliable, measurable action that causes a behavioral result across culture and countries. There is no behavior that always comes from the stimulus but you can predict the likely behavior from a stimulus. When this is in play, you have a law. A law is a small chunk of influence. The Law of Psychological Distance is predictable, verifiable and is effective across cultures but it is not a tactic or strategy.
A tactic is part of a larger strategy to accomplish an end result. In influence a tactic could be an attempt at disarming disruption, reducing resistance through a specific technique. It’s not a law. It’s not going to be effective 80% of the time. But it will be valuable to the strategy in place, 1/4 – 3/4 of the time. The Post It Note is a great tactical tool.
A strategy is a complete game plan. Large strategies are often made up of smaller strategies. Strategies use plenty of Laws of Persuasion and all kinds of tactics.
Persuasion and consumer research has expanded. I’ve simply found about 60 laws that seem to run most contexts of influence. 42 is where I was at in July when I created your video. The downside is it’s not the 10 Commandments any longer. Now we can successfully influence in almost any situation you can imagine.
Q. Hey Kev, why do you still use completely text emails? How about a little color to spice things up a bit?!
A. We’ll see. I really like my audience. Smart, savvy and on average they aren’t too concerned about what something looks like but how much of an impact it will have on their life. Obviously delivery of a package means you can control for how it’s delivered and what the package looks like. The question is does it matter? I’m sure I’ll decide to test this at some point again this year.
Q. Kevin, at your presentation you said that people lie an average of 3 times every 15 minutes. You said women more often tell lies to stop from hurting another person and men to make themselves look better. This means someone is lying 12 times an hour. Is that really possible?
A. Not 12 times in an hour, rather, 12 times per hour in conversation. Realize that most lies are not intended to harm or deceive, coming from most people. A lie is simply an intentional misrepresentation of reality as the other person sees it. Mistakes aren’t lies. Saying you lifted 400 pounds when you lifted 100 is a lie but it isn’t likely that data point is very important in the context of a conversation. Saying, “well you’re smart” or “well you’ve always been good with people,” if not true and you know it, that would be a lie but you could argue it would be a productive misrepresentation for the person, moving forward. The concept of a lie is complex and not black and white.
Q. Hey Kev, I read that body weight is mostly related to genes. True?
A. You are on the right track. Body weight is about 1/2 genes, 1/2 behavior.
Here’s the catch… just because a person is predisposed to eat
more doesn’t mean they can’t STOP eating more. We tested our
hypnosis program on hundreds and hundreds of people in three
U.S. cities, with consistent results in all three.
There is an illusion that because something is predisposed by genes
that it makes it out of your control. That is simply not true.
The color of your eyes? Sure. But most things good and bad that
are predisposed by genes can absolutely be controlled.
You can watch with your eyes as you go down the hallways of
European airports or sit next to European citizens. They are simply
a lot thinner on average than Americans and the British.
This is a genetic issue as well. Humans are wired to KEEP EATING
to have stored fat in case food becomes scarce. It was a survival
mechanism for millions of years. One that people in most countries
don’t need any more.
Dear Kevin, In your Body Language Course you give hundreds of actionable tips of which you break two of them yourself. Can you explain why you have a beard when “facial hair can reduce sales,” and “avoid pointing (your index finger) at all costs.”
Great questions. First the facial hair. There is a ton of data
that shows men with more facial hair make fewer sales, less money
and are less persuasive. So the tip doesn’t change. I have
experimented with numerous ways to have my hair cut and tested
out the rugged look, the clean shaven look, the goatee with
shorter beard, you name it.
My bite is (jaw) off by about 1/4 of an inch and has been since
college. Surgery to correct the bite would be a gamble
so I decided to see if I could even get away with looking
ok with a goatee or an unshaven look without growing a
full beard. These strategies both cause the facial structure
to appear more symmetrical. A symmetrical face and especially
the jaw, translates to better everything. Facial hair obviously
doesn’t correct the bite but it makes it very difficult to see.
There’s that secret!
Note: If I were doing direct sales, I’d be instantly clean shaven
with no facial hair at all.
Pointing! This is another gesture that is packed with emotional
impact. As a rule pointing can be deadly to communication.
However, when I’m in front of the audience, I might see someone
I recognize (or know) and simply point at them saying something,
like “that guy right there? One of the smartest/best/etc.
people in the world. In a case like this the pendulum sways the
other direction to strong positive.
But, because most people point at people and the content and
context are negative, they often are perceived by the person
across from them as critical, contemptuous and less believable.
Therefore the rule stands. In 85% of situations, the pointed
finger does you no good and possibly a lot of harm.
Kevin, How can people not be swayed by a BS piece of research? How do I not become a Fake News Supplier?
First, we have to eliminate the phrase “Fake News” because it just makes people look stupid. Communicate with more precision.
Next, don’t have a “point of view to prove.” Science doesn’t prove very many things in life. It provides evidence for a proposed idea or will disprove it. For example. It’s relatively easy to agree with the weather this week around the world. The globe experienced the hottest high temperatures in 45 years this week on four different days. A scientist with no agenda reports the FACTS of what was found. It was ridiculously hot.
Second, don’t be quick to interpret the reported data and what it means. For me, I would bet the farm that the measured temp this week is accurate. That’s a conclusion I’ve reached. I’d bet on it.
But as a rule, you should NOT draw conclusions from conclusions. Weather is a political hot button like abortion, affirmative action, right to bear arms, etc. So a scientist won’t say, “so we have to cool the earth before we burn up,” or “this proves global warming is real.” What is does show is it as the hottest four days in 45 years. The politics of the matter is very different. Having data like this is important. Who knows, maybe someone could figure out a way to change the toast trend which has been upward for about 25 years, but that doesn’t mean it could be implemented no matter how accurate the solution might be.
Politicians don’t know any more about climate change and it’s ramifications than the rest of us experience or see in our back yard. We guess. That’s all. People who have reached conclusions on 45 years of data are living in a super small sample size bubble.
Trying to convince someone to believe something about this experience (aside from the fact it’s been a MUCH warmer 25 years) are manipulating data to fit a political belief. Both side of politicians pretend they have a clue. They don’t. No one know whether the solution to hotter weather and it’s real problems that it has caused is fixable, or whether the trend won’t flip to cooler for the next 25 years. I don’t know anything except my electric bill is outrageous and my lawn is getting gray before it’s time.
Dr. Hogan, you talked about sifting out the B.S. in many psychology studies, “research” and papers at length because those studies influence your work a great deal.
Frankly it’s mentally painful to read as many papers as I do and then have to flip a metaphorical coin to accept the conclusions or not.
Here’s what I do.
I read the paper and see if ALL the hypotheses are shown to be correct. Sadly, academics don’t get published to report the status quo. They are pressured to get published but only when they have something new to say. Something new generally contradicts the status quo and improves a papers chance of getting published.
Getting published is about prestige to the individuals, universities, market research companies, sponsoring corps, who wrote the paper, the companies that benefit or are likely to be harmed by the paper. And you have to realize that even with perfect data, papers in psychology will only be correct 95% of the time because it’s very hard to measure what people are thinking and reporting. Behavior is much easier and more valuable to observe and catalog than getting people to tell you their feelings. As I’ve said for years, Self report is only helpful in a small percentage of experiments in psychology.
Another example of self report: “Why did you buy this car?” (The person has no idea in real life. There is no real answer to that kind of a question.)
Another example of self report: “Will you buy a new phone next year? (Again, they have little or no idea, though just answering that question, even with a “no” does indeed increase the chances of it happening by a few points.)
Another example of self report: “Why are you the religion you are?” (They have almost no clue.)
Another example of self report: “What caused you to make the decision/choice you did?” (Again people rarely have any idea why they do what they do.)
Another example of self report: “Was the operation a success?” (You really don’t know. It’s somewhere between maybe and probably in most cases that aren’t life or death, and even then it’s risky to answer yes to this question.)
It’s insane to believe all 10 hypotheses (proposed ideas) are correct in a paper reporting an experiment or study. To believe all 20 papers in this months Journal of Consumer Reports have all the hypotheses supported, in all the papers is next to impossible.
To be perfectly clear, some self report IS LEGIT. If you’re doing a blind taste test about which wine is tastes best or whether Pepsi is better than Coke when blind tested then self report is a useful factor. But when self report is about a person’s feelings which vary from moment to moment without a reason to be changing that actually matters in life, you don’t need to put a lot of stock into the self report.
Researchers are given a format to report their findings. When you are given a format it’s a lot easier to cheat than do the work with complete honesty. I didn’t read a paper in 2022 that had any hypothesis that was not supported by the results of the experiment. It’s statistically unlikely so scientists/psychologists, MUST BE REWARDING to report a FAIL or NEGATIVE FINDING. They need to be applauded and treated with as much appreciation as those who find a positive result.
Here’s a final thought, if you hear anyone say, “They cheated” whether a referee in football, or the Patriots, or your spouse” you have just put yourself in the category of stupid or in polite terms, “Inaccurate conclusion is possible here.” A person is entitled to their opinion. Really. But that doesn’t make it true, accurate, real or the best and most likely answer. But it MIGHT BE.
Kev, referencing the podcast, are you saying that science is becoming a BS subject? What about psychology?
I’m VERY glad you asked. When some people point out a problem, they take the problem, distort it, generalize it or delete it. There is no problem with science or psychology. No. You need to be able to think as scientists are trained to think. Science is critical. Critical thinking is more than super important. Science eliminates the wrong answers but gives a theory (a likely fact, but not absolute truth) of everything else.
Theory is incredibly important in every day life. You can’t live if you don’t have a theory of living. If you don’t think scientifically, you can’t understand the Bible, you can’t have an intelligent conversation, solve problems, or show love to others in a way they will understand it. Psychology research has been in trouble for a couple decades.
It’s so easy to make your political point in a psych paper that you have to discipline yourself to be straight with the world. If the rules of how research is reported, and the value of always being right in making your point, then you have a lousy researcher(s). That said, even with 60% of studies being replicable, 40% are currently not accurate and meaningful. Obviously you don’t throw out the 46%.
It’s not THAT hard to figure out if research or a paper is garbage. The first question is “who paid for this?” The second question is “does this sound like they are trying to support a political position or are they trying to find out the truth about what’s happening in a life or the world? Were ALL the hypotheses shown to be correct in the paper?”
Those are three STARTING points. There are a lot more questions to ask. Those three alone don’t mean a study or piece of research is junk. It just means tread carefully but don’t shoot until you have a lot more information.
Q. Kevin, why do you dislike phones so much?
Phones are a disaster. Most people are literally addicted to
their phone. They also kill business deals at increasing
rates. And what happens?
a) People find it very difficult to concentrate the closer their
phone is to them.
b) They often can’t think as clearly, creatively or with
presence because of the phone’s proximity.
c) When the phone is out of site, it’s still not out of mind
because someone else’s phone buzzing is an instant trigger to
all the thoughts and feelings that you don’t want the person
experiencing in a conversation.
d) Smart phone use is correlated to depression, anxiety, higher
levels of stress, lower income, increased narcissism, poor
work performance. I could go on.
My phone is in my pocket (always off) or ideally in some woman’s purse where I could never find it. I don’t like the phone. I don’t
answer it. I don’t return calls. I don’t like texting. I prefer
not to message in 98% of life situations. I have no curiosity as to
who is calling. My greatest use for my phone is checking on
email to see if I need to get back to a client or deal with
critical family issues which there have been a couple of major
problems this year. There is one invaluable use of the phone
and that is google maps and anything related to how to get
from here to there. In that situation the phone has saved
hours of life.
That said, When I go to my phone it means
I’m working on something I can’t control and aside from music,
it’s not valuable to me on most days of the year.
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System implies algorithm. Algorithm implies step by step predictability and completion.
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You’ve heard of going from 0 to 60 in 8 seconds in reference to a car, right?
Have you ever heard of going from starting with $1,000,000 in debt only to become a millionaire?
Someone wrote that about me and while it’s technically correct…there’s more to the story than numbers.
You probably know a bit of my story. Here is the thumbnail in three paragraphs:
I was raised in Chicago by a darn good Mom. Our family moved between poor, can’t get any poorer and lower class depending on whether Mom was married or not at the time…whether someone had just died or was dying in a hospital or yes when there were not one but TWO hospital beds in our tiny home.
Life was often nothing short of emotionally brutal. Our neighborhood was not violent although one guy did burn down the entire high school that was attended by 1600 people. (OK, that was a little distressing.)
Everyone that grew up in that child packed neighborhood had choices in life. They could choose to live a lower income bracket life when they got older. They could choose to live a middle class life when they got older. They could choose to live with an upper class income bracket when they got older.
It was and still is a choice.
I have no idea what your life experience was as a kid. I hope it was fantastic! Our experience was unusual. We were not only poor but we had the largest unforeseen debt load of anyone you’ve ever known. It was absolutely not anyone’s fault or “choice.” We didn’t have any money to spend. There were no credit cards. My first step dad spent the better part of 5 years in and out of the hospital accumulating debt that exceeded one million dollars. How does hospital debt get so big? Once you exceed a lifetime limit, the insurance doesn’t pay out benefits. It’s a long story with a lot of instructive experiences that I’ll save for the course.
As you grow up, it becomes pretty obvious you can choose to live in poverty your entire life, make minor changes or make major changes.
I don’t know about you, but I hated being poor. I wasn’t afraid of it because I lived it for a decade. When I was 11, the Boy Scouts brought a Thanksgiving turkey and old clothes. Some fit, some didn’t, all got worn, “better than not having any at all,” was indeed the correct answer.
“It makes no difference where you begin. Got a job? Don’t? Have debt? Don’t? It just doesn’t matter. Where you are going is 100% your decision.”
Today in America, 18% of people in the upper income bracket today were in the bottom 1/3 income brackets one decade ago.
You can know those kind of numbers will continue. It’s inspiring.
What caused 18% of people to leave living in lower income brackets to living a more fulfilling and rewarding life?
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It won’t be because someone gave them a job.
It won’t be because the government cut them a check.
It will be because they chose to change their life situation.
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There are no courses on wealth accumulation or wealth psychology offered in high school. There is no “playbook.”
Then when you get to college…there are no courses offered on the psychology of wealth accumulation. In the last 4 years, we’ve learned more about wealth accumulation at the research level and the face to face in the real world level than we knew the previous hundred years combined.
And things have changed so dramatically in the last decade that the playing field doesn’t even look the same.
If you went to college you probably went so that when you got out, you’d be able to “get a job.” And one thing is for sure, if you graduated from college you had a huge advantage over those who didn’t graduate from college. A college graduate earns about 1.5 times what a non graduate earns.
Ultimately that dollar figure will almost always be enough to “get by,” and will do nothing toward growing wealth.
To be clear, about 90% of households in the U.S. regardless of their income have no chance at accumulating wealth without making the changes itemized in this system. Paradoxically almost every one of those households has the actual ability to live a wealth life.
It seems ridiculous to think that someone earning $65,000 per year doesn’t have a better “chance at wealth” as someone earning $40,000 per year. It’s counter-intuitive but they simply don’t. The person at $65,000 annual income is living paycheck to paycheck in about 80% of families. The same is true, surprisingly enough for households earning $100,000 per year!
It’s no wonder people get off to a terribly slow start in life. It’s no wonder people get on a Hamster Wheel and stay there for decades. It’s tragic and heartbreaking.
Very little about having wealth is intuitive.
Today something like 40,000,000 people in the USA are on food stamps.
I remember the one and only time we used food stamps when I was a kid. I was about 7 years old and we went shopping. My Mom had three kids, no husband, no full time job, no resources and she broke down and took money from the government…for two weeks.
She was so disgusted that we never used them again. She’d earn her own money and not take that which was earned by someone else. She got a full time job instead. Thank God she made that decision or I might have been a very different person today.
“Your psychological programming needs to be changed to move beyond where you are today.”
Your money memory is a very important part of your programming, just as it is mine. Those 
early experiences with money shaped your beliefs, attitudes and behaviors around money.
Most of those beliefs, attitudes and behaviors are dysfunctional and need REPAIR.
I know because it took a long time to unplug the vast majority of those programs which were a life disaster. Unfortunately, one category of sabotaging money memory is enough to erase any opportunity at growing wealth.
I’d like to suggest to you that three things comprise wealth. Time, Money and Love.
Had I not had a Mom who loved me, again, my life would have been very different. Once you have food, water and shelter, love and time become very important.
The idea of being wealthy never was important to me until 1994. I certainly never wanted or even considered the notion of being “rich.” I didn’t see the point.
At that point you could see that the United States was going the way of Japan. We (as a nation) had been great and we were going to start a slide that 30 years from that point was going to be ugly. Political parties started buying votes with promises of “free money.”
One of my few strengths as a person was math, particularly statistics and probability. I ran the math in 1994 and I got very concerned that living a “normal life” wouldn’t be a normal life for the duration of my life. It was obvious that carrying on as I was would actually go backward over time. And that is precisely what happened.
I started researching various options and developed an approach to building wealth that relied on thinking. It took several years before a track record was established.
Got a track record?
Here’s one page of that record:
At the turn of the 21st century, “the economy” had gotten much worse. Pretty much all the nations in the world were printing a lot of counterfeit money which meant that money wasn’t going to be worth what it was for the previous three centuries. By the mid-2000’s I had put myself in a financial position that was sensible and I began to encourage people who read my work to buy gold. At the time, gold was $450 per ounce. I had begun buying gold not long before that.
Financial advisers wrote emails to me every day telling me I was wrong. But they lived in a very small world. They based their thinking on a set of principles and beliefs instilled by their industry that no longer matched what was happening in the world. I told thousands of them they needed to get their clients in gold. Four years ago on Twitter, I told people to get out of the stock market completely that it was going to go off a cliff. It was simply obvious based on the data I use.
It did just that.
You’re going to see a similar experience in the next year.
I’ll show you how to navigate your way through this mess.
Meanwhile in that 2007 – 2009 period, what happened was most Americans went into a tailspin. They lost their ability to move out of their homes because they had mortgages that were bigger than what their house was worth or what they had paid for it…and they had no wealth. Middle-class America rolled the dice that a box of wood would go up in value. It made no sense. People really believed that a house was an investment. It’s not. It is a store of value. It will always be worth something, but you can’t count on it to go up in value. That’s just silly.
I consider this a turning point in my life…
What I gained from this course is simply beyond what I can express through words…the required ‘push’, a lot of confidence, wiping out a lot of fears from me that I could not bring forth and explain, identifying a few damaging personal weaknesses I developed over the years running on the wheel, re-assurances on a lot of flashes of thought which I firmly believed were true – but got buried as I could not gather evidence to support those and a lot of insights that no one else would have ever shared with me. And a unique feedback I can give – I am based in India, a few time zones and culturally different – but what you have shared is absolutely true for us. I consider this a turning point in my life. Thank you once again!
Gold shot up from $450 to $ 1200. Some of my readers would email me saying “Thank you” over and over and over. They watched $100,000 turn into $300,000 in less than 7 years.
Now $300,000 is not “rich.” And I’m not saying I single-handedly helped people get rich overnight. That just isn’t right. I simply showed people how to save their financial lives and secure themselves and those they love while the people who didn’t take the time to learn about wealth and money started slipping off the cliff. You can only save the people who listen. Most people were stuck in a 20th-century model trying to make decisions in the 21st century. The world had changed. They wanted to be right. “They believed” in nonsense, they were taught and they went down the tubes.
Today the financial advisers are paying close attention.
People who followed the plan built stepping stones to wealth. Everyone else lost…a lot.
There is very good news, however.
“Don’t let anyone kid you: Building wealth in this decade is VERY DIFFERENT but NO MORE difficult than it was in 2008 or 2004 or 1994.”
You simply want to let it happen much faster than you would have 10 years ago.
And fear not. There are no stocks to buy. There is nothing “risky” that needs to be done. Quite the opposite. This is the new paradigm of building wealth, NOT investing. If you have some cool investing plan that has been in your family for 10 or 20 years, have at it. It won’t interfere. Your financial planner’s job is secure though you might want to teach her what you learn so she doesn’t go broke along with everyone else. If she follows her own advice….
Your life is impacted by world events. The economy is impacted by world events. But growing wealth is a pretty basic life function that anyone can do in spite of world events.
At NO TIME IN HISTORY has crisis or disaster stopped individuals who understood what was going on, from growing wealth and securing their future. 1000 years ago, no one invested in stock markets and wealth was built through good times and bad.
The last 10 years have brought more variables to the table that have to be accounted for and incorporated into the Wealth Equation.
Fortunately, there is an equation.
“Think about it. Do you have any idea what the right answer is to these questions?”
Do you know if you should be buying a house in 2024?
Do you know if you should be leaving your job for another?
Do you know if you should buy gold or stocks or commodities or futures or anything else?
Do you know what allows you to grow wealth like those in the upper-income bracket?
Most people don’t have the answer to those questions. They’ll never learn the answer to those questions. And there is a sad reason this is the case. We’ll talk about this in depth during the 10 Week E-Course.
And there are cut and dried and answers to all of those questions.
The big picture is now scripted.
You can build wealth or you can fall off the cliff. It’s all a choice.
But keep in perspective that money, or what money buys is more about the quality of life for the rest of your life than it is about skyscrapers and personal jets.
Time.
Love.
Money.
You really need all three to have a life you deserve.
And when you do you have all three, you have REAL WEALTH.
The answer to “how do I build wealth” is pretty simple, but the execution requires finesse. There is absolutely a small number of approaches that are right and a monstrous set that are wrong.
And without wealth, access to time, love and money, you could survive but you will barely be alive.
Wealth in one way, is like an Oasis…
It is yours and it is there to serve you when you need it. And like reaching the Oasis, you start out in the middle of nowhere and only those who get to The Oasis will drink the cool water.
I don’t want to sound all serious about wealth. It has it’s fun side too.
Wealth also has some perks to it.
Wealth isn’t about the limo, although I do like the limo.
It’s not about the Penthouse Suite…but it is sweet. (I rarely use the jacuzzi, but I like the VIP service and special treatment.)
It’s not about getting paid to travel to all kinds of exotic places in the world, although that’s pretty cool.
For me personally, wealth is about safety, security, peace of mind, never having to worry about what life will be like next year, 5 years from now, 15 years from now, 25 years from now, 35 years from now. It’s taken care of. Not exactly exciting stuff to think about. But for me, it solves a myriad of problems.
Wealth allows some people the ability to party nonstop.
Wealth allows some people to have hot cars and hit all the hot bars.
Wealth allows some people to be socialites and the center of the attention.
Here’s the thing. If you earn it, do what you want and live how you choose.
Today it’s hard to think of an argument to not make it a big Life Priority.
There are plenty of “roads to wealth,” now you can actually take your pick…
About 1 in 10 of the wealthy simply inherit it. That’s good for them. It did nothing for you and me.
9 in 10 who choose to be wealthy secured themselves in predictable ways. And there really are a few predictable ways people become wealthy. The last 20 years have given us more opportunities than ever.
It’s such a paradox. There have never been more ways to achieve wealth.
It’s really important to know which of those ways are a) best for you and b) going to be easiest and ecological, going forward.
The Comprehensive Wealth Accumulation Method
The Wealth Accumulation Program helps you to work with a tool called The Wealth Matrix where you see how Money, Time and Love interweave into this thing called life. In the end, you see what actions to take when to take them, how to measure your results and ultimately have what you want.
This course will guide you so you can begin the step by step process of breaking away from the chains that bind people to the past and the status quo and begin living an exciting, hopeful, abundant future.
Perhaps you sell products and services, or maybe you work at a good old-fashioned “job.” That is all history. You may or may not choose to make adjustments. There’s lots of right answers and many times more wrong ones. You’ll see them all play out in the game at lightning speed.
In just 8 weeks, with the assistance of the course, I’ll guide you through a method of safely and securely creating shifts in your life.
Abundance and financial freedom are predictable commodities.
By taking advantage of the little known but very important, Price’s Law, I’ll show you how you can virtually assure yourself any result you desire in any field or niche. Price’s Law makes wealth accumulation as predictable as the eventual arrival of a plane en route to a destination.
You’ll literally be able to look at yourself and say, “Ah, in order to get what I want, I simply to do this.” And you don’t have to guess. It’s all laid out for you.
I’m just like you. I had to learn the hard way. The very hard way. I looked at every “opportunity” (scam) and bought into more than a few. It got old quickly.
I changed my approach.
I started studying the DIFFERENCES between people who grow wealth and those who don’t. I found what most of the serious students of the affluent have found. Most of the things reported in pop psychology books and magazines don’t make much difference in achievement…in greatness…in wealth.
You learn what you NEVER learn in college!
The fact is that there’s a LOT of stuff both the affluent and the poor (and everyone in between) do. This was a huge distinction and one that caused me to really scramble about a decade ago. The difference in what I thought was real vs. what IS real was the difference of millions of dollars.
If you really want to achieve Personal Financial Freedom, the freedom from bills and living paycheck to paycheck…you can be quite sure it will happen.
Everything you learn in this course will be…
a) tangible.
b) something YOU can actually DO.
c) take work but not slavery.
d) vehicles that I’ve taken and can vouch for their safety.
Wealth is Best Generated with VERY Small Risks
I’m pretty risk averse….OK, VERY risk averse.
The first decision you make is to not make stupid decisions.
The second decision you make it to MOVE NOW. I’ve done what I have set out to do by of having a really good playbook, being smart enough to do things I find interesting or things I actually LIKE to do, and yes, recognizing and getting past limitations. (Ex. I don’t look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise)
If you’re looking to emulate the extremes of Donald Trump, this is the wrong place for you.
If you would like to live an abundant life where you achieve Financial Freedom…Personal Freedom, then here is the place. You will be given the keys. All you have to do is turn the keys in the ignition and “go.”
It’s an eight-week process. It’s fascinating, introspective, you REALLY learn about YOU. You’ll find out how you ended up where you are. You’ll find out exactly how to get where you want to go.
The approach I’ve developed for you is unique and it is special in that it accounts for personal significance and meaning in the equation of growing a life of abundance.
Life without meaning has no point. You’ll find out in The Wealth Accumulation System that you can have most of what you want in life. You can have almost anything you choose and you want to choose with what is really going to give you your best life possible.
You may not “have it all,” but you will be, do and have those things you’ve always wanted.
Eight weeks where you’ll apply what you learn and create pathways to financial freedom in your life!
Question:
If I could show you how to create the life you desired, adopt the mindset of the wealthy, and literally give you a step-by-step handbook to manifest your life filled with abundance — would you be interested?
And what happens when you put this system into practice after the course is completed??
KEY POINT: You will know exactly what to do, step by step. Your Wealth Matrix keeps you on course and moving forward at all times.
The Comprehensive Wealth Creation and Accumulation System is a wonderful experience, and if you register today you will not pay $10,000 which is what many, many seminars that purport to offer a wealth building system charge. The Comprehensive Wealth Accumulation System is $2,997.
But you can pre-register now and save!
For this ONE TIME ONLY introductory offering of The Wealth Accumulation Course, you get in for only $1777.
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