Let me try this one more time

by Blair Warren

Some people are apparently very confused about why I’m so against all this Law of Attraction nonsense.

Let me clarify:

I love self-help materials.  Have for over thirty years.  And from what I can tell, I will always love them.  And when I find good ones, I may promote them.

However, I have a huge problem when I believe the way someone markets them is likely to cause more harm than good, from the consumer’s point of view. 

Ironically, these same methods stand to do much more good than harm from the marketer’s point of view.

Since this description is abstract, let me be more specific:

1.  I do not believe something should be marketed as a universal law unless it is generally accepted by the scientific community to be one.

If someone wants to market something as a “spiritual” universal law, fine, but disclose that fact up front.

To say something is scientific because they can find a handful of scientists to support it, is, in my opinion, misleading at best.

If a marketer truly believes what they are selling is a universal law they should demonstrate their conviction by removing all disclaimers from their marketing materials. 

After all, if it works every time for every one in every circumstance, there is no need for disclaimers, right?

2.  I believe people who only begin to make real money by telling other people they can make real money by telling other people they can make real money should be exposed.

Yes, you read that correctly.

This is nothing more than a psychic pyramid scheme where you only make money by selling others the opportunity to make money.

That’s pretty much it.  Make sense?

Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:45 PM

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