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It’s Time You Realize That Most Self-Help Gurus Are Total Frauds
The real guru lies in you.
Have you heard of the drug-addicted adolescent who suddenly decided to leave everything behind to become a monk at the age of 22, only to return to his home city of London three years later and become a world-renowned self-help guru and motivational speaker?
Of course, you have.
This self-acclaimed former monk and video content creator hit international headlines in 2017 when he was enlisted for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
His name?
Jay Shetty.
What you don’t know, however, is that almost all of the content Jay had shared on his social media pages was plagiarized. Seriously. In a famous video on YouTube, Nicole Arbour totally exposes Shetty for his brilliantly sly plagiarism skills.
The guy literally stole quotes from famous writers, poets, and philosophers and claimed them to be his own. He even ends all his videos with “written by Jay Shetty,” which, to borrow Arbour’s words, is a very “Shetty thing to do.”
Jay Shetty built his name and success upon someone else’s work. Doesn’t that make him a fraud? And yet today, his first book and instant-bestseller titled, How to Think Like a Monk, has over 23,000 reviews on…