Online Courses Are a Waste of Time (If You Don’t Do This)
Lessons from wasting $2000.
Between the end of 2023 and 2024, I spent about $2000 on courses and communities for content creators. For me, it’s a lot.
I’m extremely frugal. I live in Italy, not a wealthy country. I’ve been publishing since 2010 in Italian and already found success with content.
But when I started experimenting with English, I noticed some things worked differently. And I wanted to avoid the drag of starting from scratch.
Spoiler alert: 95% of that money was wasted. But neither the remaining 5% had an ROI that justified the expense.
Besides those paid courses, I never stopped relentlessly studying success stories. Nothing gave me the magic bullet to “skyrocket” my growth.
This intensive and long deep dive reinforced an insight I’ve developed over the years: high achievers rarely know how to help you achieve the same success.
What?!?
This may sound absurd, and even contradictory. After all, I spent my hard-earned money on courses from top Medium authors and other famous creators like Justin Welsh (by the way, Justin’s course was one of the most useful). I must have believed they could help me.
