Hello friends, this is my first day in the forum (first 10 minutes), and I want to share my experience with you mainly because I am desperate as f.. But also I think my story is kinda funny if you think about it.
My name's Michael, you can call me Z. I am a 19y old Brazilian and I learned every single word I am typing to you guys by myself, in other words I self-taught myself English by watching 40 (approximated) movies and only 10 actual classes, so if my english sounds like sh@t, that is the reason. (This is not relevant nor a great accomplishment yet, but it will be important later on)
When I was a kid, I actually hated money, like I just wanted to be an inventor and study physics 24/7, but as I grow older I couldn't help but see my family getting destroyed over it. So that is the reason I started studying about things that could make me money, or so I thought. I have never had guidance up until now, every single book I read or ever saw (Including the Fastlane) I either bought it on Amazon using money I got working on the streets or found a way to read it.
After 1 year reading as much books as you can possibly imagine (3 books+ a week), I couldn't apply all of them. But I got an opportunity if you can call it that, my cousin, who studied marketing, offered me to work for him in a job that he wouldn't pay me but he would teach me all he knew. So I did work with him and learned well some concepts that I actually didn't know shit about, and probably still don't, but I showed up everyday and it was probably useful for giving me discipline.
But, I HAVE NEVER MADE ANY MONEY FOR MYSELF TO THIS DAY. I have been able to sell on his company, but I never made any of the actual work to do so... It's complicated. My current situation is: I learned about prompt engineering, some marketing principles, SEO, Video Editing, CS Basics, English in like 4 months or less, Spanish in even less time, copywriting, html/css/js, wordpress, python (mainly for webscraping purposes), AND I STILL AM NOT ABLE TO MAKE SHIT. I don't get it, it seems like everyone is so F*cking smarter than me... My latest project is on clickfunnels(found a work that can give me money to pay it), building 2 smartwatch offers: One targetting busy people who want to have a better health and better organize their life (offer consists of ebook on time management, the watch, 120% money guarantee, cashback for students and parents, a rushed shipping order bump, upsell on same but more), and the other is for fitness purposes like people who want to run a marathon or who swim, (offer consists on the smartwatch, an ebook on nutrition and dieting designed to substitute a nutritionist session for most people including many things, cashback for anyone who posts with the watch on the gym, the same 120% guarantee, same upsell and same order bump), And before you ask, I even got to read books on time management and nutrition to craft these.
I simply don't get it. It always lacks something. I always get way more ideas than I could possibly execute... And this makes me think I am always on the wrong path, that I should F*ck off with this physical product stuff and build a course where I explain something I learned, but I never feel like I am providing enough value to people. To make matters worse, Even tho my SEO/Paid Traffic skills can maybe enable to just put an ad there and hope for the best, I don't even got money to do so. I literally don't know what the F*ck to do, what type of content to create (Storytelling videos like the new ad from Apple? How to videos? Reviews and Comparisons? UCG?...) I could do any of these things with AI and video editing, or even recording myself. I just feel like there is never enough value there and I keep building and building and don't get nowhere.
I am basically too dumb to do anything and too smart to give up on learning I guess...
What do you guys think? Since I am young I should focus on learning more? Learn to build a proper SaaS with C or Bubble, Learn AI... (There are books/courses/tutorials on my list on these topics because I like it an it can be useful), OR I should do something whatever and see how the world reacts to this? Or even worse, Should I just study enough to a test and go to college? (Here in Brazil, college is free once you pass on a test, and they even cover the costs of life, but I would definitely have to give up my ideas to study like 6h/day and I don't want that anymore..)
If any of you guys can laugh on the comments or give me some insight, it would be very helpful.
My name's Michael, you can call me Z. I am a 19y old Brazilian and I learned every single word I am typing to you guys by myself, in other words I self-taught myself English by watching 40 (approximated) movies and only 10 actual classes, so if my english sounds like sh@t, that is the reason. (This is not relevant nor a great accomplishment yet, but it will be important later on)
When I was a kid, I actually hated money, like I just wanted to be an inventor and study physics 24/7, but as I grow older I couldn't help but see my family getting destroyed over it. So that is the reason I started studying about things that could make me money, or so I thought. I have never had guidance up until now, every single book I read or ever saw (Including the Fastlane) I either bought it on Amazon using money I got working on the streets or found a way to read it.
After 1 year reading as much books as you can possibly imagine (3 books+ a week), I couldn't apply all of them. But I got an opportunity if you can call it that, my cousin, who studied marketing, offered me to work for him in a job that he wouldn't pay me but he would teach me all he knew. So I did work with him and learned well some concepts that I actually didn't know shit about, and probably still don't, but I showed up everyday and it was probably useful for giving me discipline.
But, I HAVE NEVER MADE ANY MONEY FOR MYSELF TO THIS DAY. I have been able to sell on his company, but I never made any of the actual work to do so... It's complicated. My current situation is: I learned about prompt engineering, some marketing principles, SEO, Video Editing, CS Basics, English in like 4 months or less, Spanish in even less time, copywriting, html/css/js, wordpress, python (mainly for webscraping purposes), AND I STILL AM NOT ABLE TO MAKE SHIT. I don't get it, it seems like everyone is so F*cking smarter than me... My latest project is on clickfunnels(found a work that can give me money to pay it), building 2 smartwatch offers: One targetting busy people who want to have a better health and better organize their life (offer consists of ebook on time management, the watch, 120% money guarantee, cashback for students and parents, a rushed shipping order bump, upsell on same but more), and the other is for fitness purposes like people who want to run a marathon or who swim, (offer consists on the smartwatch, an ebook on nutrition and dieting designed to substitute a nutritionist session for most people including many things, cashback for anyone who posts with the watch on the gym, the same 120% guarantee, same upsell and same order bump), And before you ask, I even got to read books on time management and nutrition to craft these.
I simply don't get it. It always lacks something. I always get way more ideas than I could possibly execute... And this makes me think I am always on the wrong path, that I should F*ck off with this physical product stuff and build a course where I explain something I learned, but I never feel like I am providing enough value to people. To make matters worse, Even tho my SEO/Paid Traffic skills can maybe enable to just put an ad there and hope for the best, I don't even got money to do so. I literally don't know what the F*ck to do, what type of content to create (Storytelling videos like the new ad from Apple? How to videos? Reviews and Comparisons? UCG?...) I could do any of these things with AI and video editing, or even recording myself. I just feel like there is never enough value there and I keep building and building and don't get nowhere.
I am basically too dumb to do anything and too smart to give up on learning I guess...
What do you guys think? Since I am young I should focus on learning more? Learn to build a proper SaaS with C or Bubble, Learn AI... (There are books/courses/tutorials on my list on these topics because I like it an it can be useful), OR I should do something whatever and see how the world reacts to this? Or even worse, Should I just study enough to a test and go to college? (Here in Brazil, college is free once you pass on a test, and they even cover the costs of life, but I would definitely have to give up my ideas to study like 6h/day and I don't want that anymore..)
If any of you guys can laugh on the comments or give me some insight, it would be very helpful.
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