Further to yesterday’s post about not signing
up to the course that’s all about writing a book, I was thinking about the
instructor’s suggestion that it would be swell if I wanted to use publishing my
idea about strategies women use to shift careers around age 50 as a way to start,
say, a coaching and speaking business.
This guy framed the suggestion within the
context of knowing me, but if he did, he’d know that such a business is not
anything to which I’d aspire. Spending 14 weeks writing about anything doesn’t make you an expert in
it; it only—best case—scratches the surface. I’m not going to prance around
yapping at people about the one tiny part
of the subject I think I understand; so, no.
But it occurred to me, looking at the profile
of a self-described coach and speaker on Twitter, that this is in fact the
model for a good number of people describing themselves as speakers and
coaches. They keep regurgitating the same few one-size-fits-all “guaranteed
[number] of steps” to success, regardless of the audience. The only guaranteed
success element of their methodologies is the one that fills their bank
accounts. I wonder if they started out in a writing course?
I’m insulted that the instructor thinks I’d
want to join their ranks.
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