The internet is a wonderful, phenomenal tool. One of the greatest inventions of all time.
Anything you want, the internet can provide.
Anything you want to learn you can learn online. The knowledge of the world is free to all or comes at a small price.
But we take it too far. We all do. We spend our time playing on social networking sites and pretending we're cooler than we are, or we spend our time complaining on social networking sites. Or we spend our time looking at pornography. Or we spend three hours watching funny videos.
We spend our time in a fake world, a fake reality, talking to a computer screen, talking to other fakers sitting behind their computer. We walk outside and instead of saying hello to a pretty girl we bury ourselves in our phones, and it's just as well because she's even more obsessed with her fantasy.
All that time spent on baloney could be used to learn or earn. On the internet we can learn how to earn. Any industry we want to know about we can find on the internet. Any company we want to connect with we can find on the internet. Any industry we want to break into we can find on the internet. Anything we want to sell we can sell on the internet.
The first step to saying goodbye to the nine-to-five jive is research, research and more research and it can all be done from the internet. Learn, learn, learn until it's time to earn, earn, earn.
We could learn from it and then put our plan into action and earn from it.
All that wasted time spent on baloney could be used to advance our freedom from the nine-to-five jive.
If you can't learn from it or earn from it then burn it. Let it go. Light it on fire and watch it die. It's a waste of time and it's a waste of life.
If it has no tangible, positive results then burn it up.
Leave the social networking sites for the lonely people, for the lost people. It's for the narcissists. It's for the people who have nothing else. They can have it. Unless you can earn from it you don't need it.
The old friends worth connecting with aren't playing around on social networking sites all day. The ones who actively use social networking use it for whining, complaining, cry-baby'ing, and ego boosting.
They live online, but online living is no living at all.
Internet stars actively promote social networking for one very important reason - they earn from it. It gives them tangible results. It's a cash cow because of all the people spending every day and night obsessed with their fantasy world. What the average Joe doesn't know is that social networking is a big, big money-maker for the internet entrepreneurs.
“But it's a great way to connect with friends and family!”
No it isn't. People connected with friends and family for a really long time before the internet. Social networking is a great way for smart people to make a whole lot of money. That's what it's for and that's how a smart person should use it.
There are three kinds of users of all social networking sites:
a) Earners: Big Dogs who make Big money from the social networking sites and who have the most followers
b) Learners: Small Dogs who are actively trying to become Big Dogs, they're learning from the Bog Dogs how to do it
c) Cash Cows: People handing out money without even knowing it, the smart people capitalize on the cash cows
E-mail is a perfectly efficient way to say “hi” to friends and family and leaves plenty of free time to learn and earn.
The internet can be a tool of freedom or a vicious slave-master. Choice is ours. We know how the smart people use it.
You could be the man behind the screen making the money or you can be the man in front of the screen handing out your money without even knowing it.
There's ass to kick on the internet - if you aren't the kicker then you're the one getting kicked.
Leave the positive and cut out the baloney.
If you can't learn or earn from it, baby, it's time to burn it.
Tell me about it, facebook has gotten ridiculous. Every post I read is some asshole whining about how he/she doesn’t feel good. I feel like telling them if they are legitimately sick that much then they should just get a gun and go off themselves. And we aren’t talking about people in their teens and 20’s either. I’m talking grown mean and women in their 30’s and 40’s bitching over tummy aches and sneezes to the world on a weekly basis. Pathetic
It is a very sad sight. I think the kids in their 20’s and 30’s are some of the worst. They complain about work or being sick. Well get off of Facebook and go change that!! Kick ass post victor! Everything you mentioned was spot on! “The internet can be a tool of freedom or a vicious slave master”. Wise words my friend thank you for this post
this post fired me up!
that’s what i love to hear!
I committed ‘online suicide’ after reading an article on Bold & Determined about six months ago and I honestly haven’t looked back since.
The trivialities of people’s lives don’t bother me anymore.
It’s liberating.
Stuart did it the right way. He burned it up.
Here’s a link to that article: https://boldanddeterminedarchive.com/2011/03/10/6-things-that-make-you-lazy-and-how-to-avoid-them/
I was going to delete my Facebook account, but then I found this site and many others. I’m going to spend less time on it and share these blogs. There’s many guys I know that need this info. I’m definitely teaching my sons this stuff, too.
This is so true, it should be in the Bible.
Got rid of my Facebook a few weeks ago. Not missing it at all.
Problem with Facebook is once you join you’re in their database forever, even if you delete your account. I joined when I was 18 and only gave them my first name, last name and profile pic. I used a fake birthday, etc and now I’m sorry I even gave them that much info.
I am admittedly in the “b) Learners: Small Dogs who are actively trying to become Big Dogs, they’re learning from the Big Dogs how to do it” category. For now.
Great article! I have been annoyed with Facebook and all of the whining and belly-aching that goes along with it from my “friends” - most of whom I wouldn’t even bother talking to if I ran into them in the outside world. I cut down my Facebook presence and made it strictly business-only. I got a lot of negative feedback from average-joe/jane family and friends for becoming so “impersonal” on social networking sites. Some were even a bit rude about it. Hey, guess what? If average joe/janes are complaining that I’m not like them anymore, then I know that I’m on the right path!
Then I read this article - and it just solidifies that my train of thought was completely on-track. It’s narcissim and ego-boosting galore out there on Facebook (along with whining, pictures of dinners - wth - and other pointless wastes of time). I didn’t burn my Facebook account because I do see how I can use Facebook to boost business for me. And that’s just it. It’s a tool that I can use to help me earn, so it doesn’t get burned. I truly enjoy not caring what what’s-his-face or what’s-her-face from high school had for breakfast, but if they want to be my customer and get that interaction through social networking - great! If they don’t, then great! It doesn’t cut into my time to learn and earn either way - and that’s what is truly important to me..
Im a learner myself. Thanks for helping me to open my eyes.!
Vic,
This post is old. This post is still one of my favorites. I am not mad that people spend all day on social media. IT MAKES ME MONEY!
First month I pulled in $780. You can’t tell someone how to do this. EVERYONE ALWAYS LOOKS FOR THE ANSWERS. It isn’t so simple! It took thinking outside of the box, following through, making something uniqish, and a little bit of lady luck dancing on my lap ;)
My second month I’m scheduled to finish off at around $800. January! The slowest month of the year. Look at this! I am pumped.
Next month? It’s to the races son! All the work I am doing by EXPANDING this month, I will reap the rewards later. There will ALWAYS be some sort of social media and it will ALWAYS be a money maker. I am on my way to be a big dog. Ouwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Great work fella.
‘if you aren’t the kicker then you’re the one getting kicked’
Ha ha, no doubt about it, Great quote Vic
Vic,
From a tech perspective: An interesting thing that I have observed about the Internet (and computing resource use in general) is, the best or most worthwhile ideas take very little bandwidth to communicate. A quick e-mail to family or friends to catch up or to a colleague, discussing a potentially lucrative client takes very little bandwidth and, many times, the return on the investment is large. Consumption-based activities, such as pornography, playing video games, or streaming the football game require tremendous bandwidth, with little or no return on the investment (perhaps even negative return).
I do everything from a 2009 13″ MacBook Pro. It has enough system bandwidth to run Windows 7 on a virtual machine, for my BPA (business process automation) business and, the return on the investment is large. Average Joes, who use technology for consumption-based activities always wonder how I manage to do everything from a 5-year-old laptop and not need a 16-core workstation, like they do, for the latest Call of Duty. I shrug and say, “Different priorities, I guess?”
Hi Victor has facebook or twitter helped much with traffic to your site? Patiently wait for your next post!
Bold and determined has 728 subscribers on Facebook, one of which is me.
No.
Victor has said multiple times that he hasn’t done anything special to draw traffic to his site, other than putting out the absolute best content he can.
We all seem to be patiently waiting
You don’t get the audience before the content.
The old friends worth connecting with aren’t playing around on social networking sites all day. The ones who actively use social networking use it for whining, complaining, cry-baby’ing, and ego boosting.
In my opinion, this article was blunt almost to the point of being smug, which is what made it great. Not for the eyes of those with an easily pained hind quarter, perhaps. I gotta hand it to this Victor Pride cat for elequently encompassing my same opinions into ome one really rad article. I dig it. I’m gomma check some more of his work and hope theyre as good as this one. Thw work could use mord shit like this and less fluffed up mind numbing bullshit
Very true, but those days you are on twitter constantly. Kinda contradictory.
Well i guess when you are rich the rules no longer apply.
Perhaps because he earns from it now.
“If you can’t learn from it or earn from it then burn it. Let it go. Light it on fire and watch it die. It’s a waste of time and it’s a waste of life.”
That sums it up.