Quick Reality Check

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How do I know the nonsense you are peddling isn’t real?

There’s two simple tests that I can perform to find out.

The National Geographic Monks in a Monastery Test

Has National Geographic done an expose about a group of Tibetan monks living in a remote monastery somewhere concerning whatever mysticism you’re pushing on me? No? Then it probably isn’t true.

The Idiots On Youtube Test

Are there any videos posted on Youtube with one or more teenage idiots using whatever the mystical nonsense is to cause other people grief or causing themselves to be injured? No? Then it most likely isn’t true.

If whatever it is you are telling me fails both of these tests, I can say with a good degree of certainty that it’s bullshit.

Information = Income

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If you’ve got information, the more the better, it will have two distinct attributes, both of which involve money. The information will have one or the other attribute, or even both at the same time.

1) Someone, somewhere will be willing to pay money to gain access to it.

2) Someone, somewhere, will be willing to pay money to advertise on it.

Because of the Internet lowering access costs to information, you now have a golden opportunity to take data, any data, the more the better, wrap it up and present it in a dozen different ways.

It is an odd realisation to wake up to the possibility to make a real sustainable income from nothing more than a bunch of information that someone else wants.