Being the actor of your own
Being the actor of your own
development
Formulas for success don’t work and you know it!
(Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this message)
What would you be doing right now if all the self-help,
recipes for success, mindset hacks you tried so far got you what they promised: a smooth, enjoyable, problem-free life?
Chances are… you don’t even know!
Most visions of success (a class of products generating 10+ Billion Dollars a year for the self-growth industry) are generic, shallow and repetitive.
After all,
Who doesn’t want to be cruising around Dubai in a brand-new Italian supercar, fancy cocktail crammed in the cup holder, answering calls from business partners offering easy, quick, highly profitable and – of course – legal ventures?
Ok, that might not be what you truly are into.
Maybe your vision is a little more personal, suited to your personality and needs.
Maybe it is a little more grounded in reality.
Yet, formulas never delivered – time and time again.
So why do you keep buying them?
Sorry, let me rephrase to include myself here: why do we keep buying formulas for success?
Knowing that all of them failed to deliver what they promised?
Sure, they could bring SOME benefits but never the full package…
It all sounds pretty irrational, doesn’t it?
Rightly so.
Because it is!
Irrationality is a big part of what we are – individually and at the scale of the whole species.
I mean…
Have a peak at global news. Can you make rational sense of it all?
Please contact me if your answer is “Absolutely”: I have a thing or two to learn from you J
If irrationality defines us, making it the problem means WE are the problem: what a toxic Worldview!
Who would like to enter a World of Duality (more on that later)?
Yet, we still feel there is a problem which needs solving.
What could it be?
Hi, I’m Gauthier Lamothe.
French innovator and entrepreneur.
[Picture of Gauthier Lamothe]
I started my first venture at 15, before I was legal.
Disrespecting the law was not my drive at the time (nor was wanting to “make Child Labor in France a thing again”)
I simply got into business because:
- I wanted independence and money can buy some.
- There were tons of problems around, all waiting to be fixed.
In the beginning,
I wrote Medical Reports Transcription,
I shot and edited videos for weddings and other parties.
In 7 words: I was freelancing before it was hype!
Over the decades, I created, ran – and, sometimes, crashed – lots of businesses among which:
- A production company, responsible for a major theatrical release.
- A manufacturing company specialized in trailer parts and equipment.
- A couple of restaurants ranging from luxury pastries to vegan fast-food
- Websites on subjects as diverse as personal healthcare and moneymaking.
- A startup in blockchain.
And many more.
These exciting experiences led me to the conclusion that…
There cannot be any conclusion at all!
Entrepreneurship is this never-ending road of unfoldment,
Where you make an impact on the World
As much as the World changes you.
Entrepreneurship is a path of Unity!
You are striving to make One with a dynamic, fast-changing environment and if you finally get there, well…
You MIGHT Succeed.
Because there is the Luck factor… Luck and unpredictability are terms in the beautiful – yet ungraspable – equation of Unity.
Some people were just right too soon and failed, because
“The right move at the wrong time is the wrong move”
– Rener Gracie –
In the beginning, this level of uncertainty was unbearable to me. I wouldn’t take “mystery” for an answer, so I started looking for solutions.
Name any business model,
Any Self-Development school,
Any crazy idea…
I have tried it.
And as it turned out, it never was the decisive factor in any of my successes – or failures.
Let’s examine the most common clichés about success and counterexamples of how they do NOT apply to Reality:
- You need to have a clear plan and goal.
Or you can meet somebody who has a terrific idea and is just looking for someone who has the skills to make it real (you). - You need to work hard and hustle 24/7.
Except if you’re an investor who studies his/her market of choice for half of the year – enjoying Life for the remaining half. - You need to be perfect and never make mistakes.
Go ask anyone in the Fortune or Forbes TOP100 if they had an errorless journey. *facepalm* - You need to know exactly what you want and go after it with laser focus.
Can be true. Can also be a shortcut to tunnel-vision, making you miss countless new opportunities popping up along the way. - You need to surround yourself with positive people who will support your dreams.
Then fire any friend, relative or loved-one who’s willing to give you negative feedback. Who needs negativity after all? - You need to take massive action and never give up on your goals.
Or maybe you just need to take appropriate action and remain adaptable?
The list could go on and on…
Until we understand that Self-Help and Recipes for success are Dualistic in nature.
Let me explain:
There are two schools of personal Development.
- The “Maximize your strengths” School:
The premise (which holds true) is that you were born with a set of talents and would gain in developing them to the fullest.
Get great at what you’re good at and you’ll be earning enough to delegate what you are “not-so-good at” to competent people.
The 80/20 thinking advertised by Richard Koch is a good example of this school of thought.
It makes perfect sense.
The “Mitigate your weaknesses” School:
This school states that you are as strong as your weakest link. Sure, you can do stuff better than others, but if you want to be cost-effective and bring your ideas to life in a timely fashion, you need to be doing a lot on your own –
Especially now, in the digital era.
Tai Lopez, Andrew Tate and other Web-Marketing gurus are good examples of this “Hustle Harder, Hustler Smarter” mentality (to quote 50 Cent).
And it also makes perfect sense.
These two currents, in substance, say:
- Be yourself no matter what!
- Adapt to the World no matter what!
Let’s dive deeper into this fundamental dichotomy, by examining a famous quote from Warren Buffett:
“Would you rather be the World’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the World’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the World’s worst lover, but have everyone think you’re the World’s greatest lover?
Now, that’s an interesting question.”
You bet, Warren.
The expected answer, here, is the first option: do things for yourself without seeking the World’s approval.
Be unique.
Invest in what you believe in.
Never follow other people’s dogmas.
Who wouldn’t sympathize with this Worldview?
But does it explain why some people get rich through copy-trading?
Or why some others fail while pursuing their passions, having listened to their unique voice?
Now the funny part:
If everyone thought you were the World’s worst lover, who would want to have sex with you anyway?
At least, the actual worst lover in the World wouldn’t be lacking partners, if everybody on the planet thought he/she was the best…
This quote illustrates in fact why Self-Development is no insulation from the World’s chaotic nature.
(And why, for the sake of this analysis, Berkshire Hathaway should consider me as a partner… In finance!)
Some people like to depict the Economic Environment as a Jungle.
They rant about predation, danger and competition for resources.
This is one way to put it (a way the “Adapt to the world” School advertises). Predator eats prey: the animalistic approach.
But one could also consider the vegetal implications of the metaphor. After all, in a Jungle, you’re – statistically speaking – far more likely to get lost and dehydrated than mauled by an angry jaguar*.
(*accounting for ± 20 deaths a year: you still don’t want to mess with them!)
The Jungle metaphor says one truth: entrepreneurship is about exploring uncharted territory.
Every Self-Help School in the world will tell you they have the best compass to figure out your direction.
The best machete to hack your path forward.
They will promise that these tools cannot fail.
Even when our experience teaches us the contrary:
they can – and will – fail.
What you need is not a brand-new compass.
What you need is not another machete.
As you would benefit way more from:
- Learning how to become your own compass, so you could always find your way back to your purpose and mission.
- Familiarizing yourself with your personal sharpness, discovering what gives you an edge and polish it so it can shine for the world to see.
In other words:
- Adapting to the World without losing sight of yourself.
- Potentializing your innate talents while keeping the Market in sight.
Say Goodbye to the divisive rhetoric of Self-Help Schools, focus on creating a personalized approach to self-improvement that aligns with your unique goals and values.
Take control, craft a plan that works for you!
And the shortest way known to this is
[Entrepreneur’s Self-Management Crash Course]!
In this course, you will learn:
✅ Time management based on your internal clock – not somebody else’s Ideology!
✅ Self-Awareness and Introspection on the move – because everything is constantly moving… fast!
✅ Advanced stress management and emotional intelligence – so you can help yourself and others.
✅ Motivation and behavior change – why the voluntarist approach is limited and how we can learn to negotiate with ourselves in a truly effective manner.
✅ Identifying and choosing fulfilling life scenarios – because nobody else than yourself can write a more epic screenplay for your life!
✅ Meta-cognition and perspective-taking – learning how to identify never-seen-before opportunities and take advantage of them.
✅ Communication skills and conflict resolution – bringing the cutting-edge methods of secret services to civilian life!
✅ Energetic Management and how to keep running high gears in the marathon of life – without getting burnt out!
✅ Epistemology in a nutshell – so you’ll know what you can expect and what is truly unpredictable.
✅ Funny cognitive biases that can easily be cut-off and make us instantly gain a ton of clarity and happiness.
✅ How to create Role Plays on the go, engage your audience and have fun while working
And many more treats
All of this in a no-sweat, “enjoy the process” fashion.
What you’ll gain goes beyond tools (although there are plenty of them along the course): you will develop Structure and Resiliency. The ability to take care of yourself and adapt on your entrepreneurial journey.
Plain.
Simple.
Self-Help and Coaching were bound to fail from the start: they are autobiographical.
“Experience is a lamp that only lights the one holding it”
– Louis Ferdinand Céline –
(I had to quote a French Writer ????????)
Through this amazing course, I am not teaching you my experience,
I am showing how you can optimize YOURS!
How to become your own compass.
How to be your very own machete (OK, that one’s weird).
In order to survive and thrive in a globalized environment ????
While remaining healthy and happy ????
Because what’s the point in making a lot of money solving problems
If you are no longer around, in great shape, to enjoy it?
Follow this link for the complete course
[Link]
On Udemy
(A guarantee of professional standards and customer service ????)
Sincerely Yours,
Your friend in the Jungle
Gauthier
PS: But what if I am an employee? – you may ask.
Well, you are still selling your time and competences: this really sound like entrepreneur stuff!
We are all entrepreneurs: we all have the potential to be successful and make a positive impact on the World.
Remember,
We are all multifaceted individuals with a wealth of talents and abilities – this course will help you discover and unleash them!
Formulas for success don’t work and you know it!
(Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this message)
What would you be doing right now if all the self-help,
recipes for success, mindset hacks you tried so far got you what they promised: a smooth, enjoyable, problem-free life?
Chances are… you don’t even know!
Most visions of success (a class of products generating 10+ Billion Dollars a year for the self-growth industry) are generic, shallow and repetitive.
After all,
Who doesn’t want to be cruising around Dubai in a brand-new Italian supercar, fancy cocktail crammed in the cup holder, answering calls from business partners offering easy, quick, highly profitable and – of course – legal ventures?
Ok, that might not be what you truly are into.
Maybe your vision is a little more personal, suited to your personality and needs.
Maybe it is a little more grounded in reality.
Yet, formulas never delivered – time and time again.
So why do you keep buying them?
Sorry, let me rephrase to include myself here: why do we keep buying formulas for success?
Knowing that all of them failed to deliver what they promised?
Sure, they could bring SOME benefits but never the full package…
It all sounds pretty irrational, doesn’t it?
Rightly so.
Because it is!
Irrationality is a big part of what we are – individually and at the scale of the whole species.
I mean…
Have a peak at global news. Can you make rational sense of it all?
Please contact me if your answer is “Absolutely”: I have a thing or two to learn from you J
If irrationality defines us, making it the problem means WE are the problem: what a toxic Worldview!
Who would like to enter a World of Duality (more on that later)?
Yet, we still feel there is a problem which needs solving.
What could it be?
Hi, I’m Gauthier Lamothe.
French innovator and entrepreneur.
[Picture of Gauthier Lamothe]
I started my first venture at 15, before I was legal.
Disrespecting the law was not my drive at the time (nor was wanting to “make Child Labor in France a thing again”)
I simply got into business because:
- I wanted independence and money can buy some.
- There were tons of problems around, all waiting to be fixed.
In the beginning,
I wrote Medical Reports Transcription,
I shot and edited videos for weddings and other parties.
In 7 words: I was freelancing before it was hype!
Over the decades, I created, ran – and, sometimes, crashed – lots of businesses among which:
- A production company, responsible for a major theatrical release.
- A manufacturing company specialized in trailer parts and equipment.
- A couple of restaurants ranging from luxury pastries to vegan fast-food
- Websites on subjects as diverse as personal healthcare and moneymaking.
- A startup in blockchain.
And many more.
These exciting experiences led me to the conclusion that…
There cannot be any conclusion at all!
Entrepreneurship is this never-ending road of unfoldment,
Where you make an impact on the World
As much as the World changes you.
Entrepreneurship is a path of Unity!
You are striving to make One with a dynamic, fast-changing environment and if you finally get there, well…
You MIGHT Succeed.
Because there is the Luck factor… Luck and unpredictability are terms in the beautiful – yet ungraspable – equation of Unity.
Some people were just right too soon and failed, because
“The right move at the wrong time is the wrong move”
– Rener Gracie –
In the beginning, this level of uncertainty was unbearable to me. I wouldn’t take “mystery” for an answer, so I started looking for solutions.
Name any business model,
Any Self-Development school,
Any crazy idea…
I have tried it.
And as it turned out, it never was the decisive factor in any of my successes – or failures.
Let’s examine the most common clichés about success and counterexamples of how they do NOT apply to Reality:
- You need to have a clear plan and goal.
Or you can meet somebody who has a terrific idea and is just looking for someone who has the skills to make it real (you). - You need to work hard and hustle 24/7.
Except if you’re an investor who studies his/her market of choice for half of the year – enjoying Life for the remaining half. - You need to be perfect and never make mistakes.
Go ask anyone in the Fortune or Forbes TOP100 if they had an errorless journey. *facepalm* - You need to know exactly what you want and go after it with laser focus.
Can be true. Can also be a shortcut to tunnel-vision, making you miss countless new opportunities popping up along the way. - You need to surround yourself with positive people who will support your dreams.
Then fire any friend, relative or loved-one who’s willing to give you negative feedback. Who needs negativity after all? - You need to take massive action and never give up on your goals.
Or maybe you just need to take appropriate action and remain adaptable?
The list could go on and on…
Until we understand that Self-Help and Recipes for success are Dualistic in nature.
Let me explain:
There are two schools of personal Development.
- The “Maximize your strengths” School:
The premise (which holds true) is that you were born with a set of talents and would gain in developing them to the fullest.
Get great at what you’re good at and you’ll be earning enough to delegate what you are “not-so-good at” to competent people.
The 80/20 thinking advertised by Richard Koch is a good example of this school of thought.
It makes perfect sense.
The “Mitigate your weaknesses” School:
This school states that you are as strong as your weakest link. Sure, you can do stuff better than others, but if you want to be cost-effective and bring your ideas to life in a timely fashion, you need to be doing a lot on your own –
Especially now, in the digital era.
Tai Lopez, Andrew Tate and other Web-Marketing gurus are good examples of this “Hustle Harder, Hustler Smarter” mentality (to quote 50 Cent).
And it also makes perfect sense.
These two currents, in substance, say:
- Be yourself no matter what!
- Adapt to the World no matter what!
Let’s dive deeper into this fundamental dichotomy, by examining a famous quote from Warren Buffett:
“Would you rather be the World’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the World’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the World’s worst lover, but have everyone think you’re the World’s greatest lover?
Now, that’s an interesting question.”
You bet, Warren.
The expected answer, here, is the first option: do things for yourself without seeking the World’s approval.
Be unique.
Invest in what you believe in.
Never follow other people’s dogmas.
Who wouldn’t sympathize with this Worldview?
But does it explain why some people get rich through copy-trading?
Or why some others fail while pursuing their passions, having listened to their unique voice?
Now the funny part:
If everyone thought you were the World’s worst lover, who would want to have sex with you anyway?
At least, the actual worst lover in the World wouldn’t be lacking partners, if everybody on the planet thought he/she was the best…
This quote illustrates in fact why Self-Development is no insulation from the World’s chaotic nature.
(And why, for the sake of this analysis, Berkshire Hathaway should consider me as a partner… In finance!)
Some people like to depict the Economic Environment as a Jungle.
They rant about predation, danger and competition for resources.
This is one way to put it (a way the “Adapt to the world” School advertises). Predator eats prey: the animalistic approach.
But one could also consider the vegetal implications of the metaphor. After all, in a Jungle, you’re – statistically speaking – far more likely to get lost and dehydrated than mauled by an angry jaguar*.
(*accounting for ± 20 deaths a year: you still don’t want to mess with them!)
The Jungle metaphor says one truth: entrepreneurship is about exploring uncharted territory.
Every Self-Help School in the world will tell you they have the best compass to figure out your direction.
The best machete to hack your path forward.
They will promise that these tools cannot fail.
Even when our experience teaches us the contrary:
they can – and will – fail.
What you need is not a brand-new compass.
What you need is not another machete.
As you would benefit way more from:
- Learning how to become your own compass, so you could always find your way back to your purpose and mission.
- Familiarizing yourself with your personal sharpness, discovering what gives you an edge and polish it so it can shine for the world to see.
In other words:
- Adapting to the World without losing sight of yourself.
- Potentializing your innate talents while keeping the Market in sight.
Say Goodbye to the divisive rhetoric of Self-Help Schools, focus on creating a personalized approach to self-improvement that aligns with your unique goals and values.
Take control, craft a plan that works for you!
And the shortest way known to this is
[Entrepreneur’s Self-Management Crash Course]!
In this course, you will learn:
✅ Time management based on your internal clock – not somebody else’s Ideology!
✅ Self-Awareness and Introspection on the move – because everything is constantly moving… fast!
✅ Advanced stress management and emotional intelligence – so you can help yourself and others.
✅ Motivation and behavior change – why the voluntarist approach is limited and how we can learn to negotiate with ourselves in a truly effective manner.
✅ Identifying and choosing fulfilling life scenarios – because nobody else than yourself can write a more epic screenplay for your life!
✅ Meta-cognition and perspective-taking – learning how to identify never-seen-before opportunities and take advantage of them.
✅ Communication skills and conflict resolution – bringing the cutting-edge methods of secret services to civilian life!
✅ Energetic Management and how to keep running high gears in the marathon of life – without getting burnt out!
✅ Epistemology in a nutshell – so you’ll know what you can expect and what is truly unpredictable.
✅ Funny cognitive biases that can easily be cut-off and make us instantly gain a ton of clarity and happiness.
✅ How to create Role Plays on the go, engage your audience and have fun while working
And many more treats
All of this in a no-sweat, “enjoy the process” fashion.
What you’ll gain goes beyond tools (although there are plenty of them along the course): you will develop Structure and Resiliency. The ability to take care of yourself and adapt on your entrepreneurial journey.
Plain.
Simple.
Self-Help and Coaching were bound to fail from the start: they are autobiographical.
“Experience is a lamp that only lights the one holding it”
– Louis Ferdinand Céline –
(I had to quote a French Writer ????????)
Through this amazing course, I am not teaching you my experience,
I am showing how you can optimize YOURS!
How to become your own compass.
How to be your very own machete (OK, that one’s weird).
In order to survive and thrive in a globalized environment ????
While remaining healthy and happy ????
Because what’s the point in making a lot of money solving problems
If you are no longer around, in great shape, to enjoy it?
Follow this link for the complete course
[Link]
On Udemy
(A guarantee of professional standards and customer service ????)
Sincerely Yours,
Your friend in the Jungle
Gauthier
PS: But what if I am an employee? – you may ask.
Well, you are still selling your time and competences: this really sound like entrepreneur stuff!
We are all entrepreneurs: we all have the potential to be successful and make a positive impact on the World.
Remember,
We are all multifaceted individuals with a wealth of talents and abilities – this course will help you discover and unleash them!
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