I get where you're coming from. It's like when you focus too much on the past, you become filled with regret or disappointment. Similarly, if you focus too much on saturated business opportunities that used to print money, you will start to think that the Fastlane no longer works or has new speed limits. But what is really going on is you're missing what is happening NOW.Is that sorta like asking if physics no longer works because too many people know about it now?
On a serious note though, I totally understand the feeling. What's really behind that question is the fear "Am I too late?!?"
As someone who has fallen on his face many times, but is still trying, allow me to humbly offer a few points for why I no longer wrestle with this thought.
- You gotta be careful about judging your regular "internet experience" as concrete proof of anything. If you were to spend about a week googling videos about quantum physics, watching YouTube videos on it, searching for it on Reddit and Facebook, you'd then start to stumble across more of the same type of content due to how the search algorithms work. Mix in our natural reticular activating system (RAS), and you'll start to think that everyone on the planet is now talking about quantum physics. No, not really, it's just the internet, and your brain, giving you more of what it thinks you're looking for.
- Secondly, there are tons of "gurus" out there using the same words, phrases, or concepts that are used in books like Unscripted , but it's not because they truly live that stuff. They are mostly "list-sellers", trying to pull you into their scammy sales funnels and keep you hooked. They aren't producing more "fastlaners". They are just distracting them and wasting their time and money. Most of your so-called "competition" are busy trying to follow someone else's "system", which is usually a system that doesn't work anymore, hence why the guru "wants to teach it to you." There are many people on this very forum who are going to finish reading MJ's book and get really excited about getting started but will then immediately get trapped and pulled in by the nearest guru, MLM, or trading scam, because they never fully internalized the principles. You don't need to worry about competing with those people.
- Finally, at any given moment, there's usually only like 5-10 types of businesses people are obsessing about on the internet, when, in reality, there are like hundreds, maybe even thousands of ways to get started that most of the crowd isn't talking about. Just a few weeks ago, I had a great conversation at a gas station with a guy who built his business out of cleaning up dog poop (and other wastes) from residential lawns and business-owned lands. I don't remember the business name, but he got my attention because his entire pickup truck had some hilarious branding on it that told you exactly what he did. It turned out that he has 6 other employees driving around the city in these same trucks right now (I live in a really big city), and that the only reason he was driving this one was to drop it off for maintenance work. He doesn't even drive the trucks anymore! What's also interesting is that he said he now had some extra time to work on another business venture he's putting together. How many people do you hear talking about doing stuff like that?!
It's just fear. Shake it off.
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