I think this one is a little more nuanced than that. I haven't bought any of Dawson's courses and definitely don't plan to now, but this is not a person adverti

I think this one is a little more nuanced than that. I haven't bought any of Dawson's courses and definitely don't plan to now, but this is not a person advertising a "get-rich-quick" scheme. At least not from the impression I've gotten from his podcast. Plenty of people pay for courses, coaching, etc in the tech space. Some of those are scammy, and others are people just legitimately teaching you what they know and not making flowery promises about it. It's the same in other industries. At the same time, I'm always suspicious by default of someone selling these kinds of things, even if they aren't obvious "I will make you rich" claims. If someone seems to be making more income from teaching people to do a thing than actually doing that thing, I get wary. Of course this has nuance as well - I would not be inherently suspicious of a university professor teaching full time. But a self-published author teaching you to run Facebook ads? Good educators _do_ exist in that space, but there needs to be a smell test there. As for "doing your own thing", if you have a goal-oriented reason for doing something you can benefit from seeing how other people successfully did that thing. Sure, you can bumble along on your own "doing your own thing" and eventually luck out or figure it out (or maybe not), but often that tends to be a bad strategy.