Finished the LP course

[Jannes]

On 22.1.2025 at 6:48 PM, The Renaissance Man said:

 

@Jannes The problem is that you don't know what's possible. I don't mean this in a woo-woo way, but in a really practical way.

That's why I put emphasis on marketing, or in general business skills. It's impossible, and I mean impossible, to even fathom the possibilities from outside.

There's people that have the knowledge to become millionaires in a year if you strip them of everything. (I'm not one of them lol, but I can start to see how that would be possible).

 

For example, imagine person X that is left without a dollar in his bank and zero people in his network. Key thing he still has: the skills to solve the other person's problem in exchange for money.

1. He sets up a LinkedIn profile to look professional and an expert.
2. Posts a bunch and sends people connection requests to gain some credibility.
3. Then he starts contacting his LinkedIn connections pitching a SOLID offer, maybe guaranteeing to work for free if they don't achieve the result. A lot of people would accept something like that. And since he has the SKILLS, he can deliver on the promise.
4. There you go, done. He starts making money.

Even the idea to set up this 3-4 step system stems from marketing/business knowledge. Imagine all the ways and opportunties that he sees and you don't.

 

Marketing is not a career path. Marketing is how you make money from your skills. Here's the problem:

1. You have a life purpose
2. Therefore, you invest a lot of time in it, and you become a master, as Leo suggests
3. If you're a master, it means you have valuable knowledge that's hard to earn. You've earned it in the process to mastery.
4. If it's valuable, someone's willing to pay for it, or a form of it.
5. Problem: nobody knows you're a master.
6. Real Problem: you don't know how to solve the problem above.

And there can be more problems, maybe you don't even know how to package your mastery so that somebody could want it, and you could live off of it. Business knowledge is the solution. Leo gave you the roadmap to point 3 with his course. But I suggest you don't wait until you're a master to learn how to make money from your valuable skills.

View it this way: there is a way to work on your creative endeavors full time. But you lack the knowledge to even consider how that could be possible. That's what I'm pointing at, that's what I called marketing. Imagine if you had that clarity to know, oh, if I do this, get there, then do that, then today do this for x hours, I'll get that almost mathematically. Imagine how motivated you'd be.

 

This was just to illustrate my point by the way. I haven't made it yet, but I'm very close to it, so maybe I'll come back to you in 6-12 months with more confidence lol.

I do have real painful experience with being a master at something and have nobody care or realize.

I also do have the experience of the wild motivation you get when you can draw a clear line between your current situation and the life purpose lifestyle.

So I kind of am speaking from experience, not yet the full spectrum though.

I am not a master at anything yet. I am still at the stage where I dont even really know what I want to pursue. At the moment the closest thing is writing theatre plays and acting where I have some experience in. 

The other thing is that I dont know if I even want to work on my LP full time. I need time to get some inspiration and some kind of grounding routine in work could be very beneficial. I dont think I could manage working on creative pursuits all day. For my mental health I actually cling to some kind of (loose) structures. 

What you share is all valueable though. I guess even if what I have atm is just an offshoot, seeing that I could potentially make a living of that might be manure to growth.

You said you didnt make it yet. Maybe you want to share your journey so far though.