Christian Polk coaches a prospect hesitant about a high-ticket program who wants to research Reddit reviews first. Polk argues that reading about an 18-year-old named Nathan making $20K/month won't solve the prospect's problem, and that only action yields results. The prospect reveals his real goal: earn $20,000 monthly and move out of his apartment, then commits to the program.
This sounds good, man, but I've kind of looked through Reddit. I'm gonna see what everyone's saying. I'll make a decision from there. No offense.
No offense taken, man. Why Reddit though? It's an interesting thing to look at.
It's less biased, you know, instead of like Trustpilot or just Google reviews. You can manipulate that.
I mean, you'd be surprised. You definitely can do that. Like, I think I have like one post about me and it only says good things. Reddit aside, is this something you would even want to do?
It is, yeah. That's why I was looking through Reddit.
There's a difference between taking a look at a gym and like actually going in every single day. It's like eating right and doing the workouts. So for you, why would you actually do this?
My goal is 20K a month, move out of this apartment.
Can I share a perspective on looking at like other people's results and what they have to say?
Gosh.
Ultimately, does looking what other people have done, looking at their results, even if they've gotten great results, does this actually solve your problem?
It solves my problem.
Let's just take Nathan, for example, who I just posted. He's 18 years old, he makes 20K per month. You knowing this fact that I coached him, does that actually solve your problem?
I mean, it helps with me going forward with this, but—
Oh, it helps you maybe make a decision to initially solve your problem but doesn't do anything to actually solve your problem. So it really comes down to whatever it is you're looking for on the internet, you'll find it, you'll find good things to do it, and then you can find things. It's like, oh, all sales training, all online programs, all that's a scam. Whatever it is you're looking for, like, you'll find it. So just getting the information of like people who've done it and people who don't want to do it, like, that doesn't really actually solve our problem. The only thing that actually solves our problem is if we do it, because the only way you're going to know what the weather is going to be at the beach tomorrow unless you actually go there. So what's the only way you're going to know if this particular program actually solves your specific problem?
I have to do it just to see what happens.
If you knew that it would work, if you knew you couldn't fail, what type of decision would you make right now?
I do it, of course.
If you knew you would do it, if it wouldn't fail, why are you planning for failure? I can't give you a good answer. It's a tough question, man. Why would you be planning for failure if you truly want success? Should you be?
Yeah.
If we look at ourselves, of the person we want to be, like not the person we are now, are they planning for failure or are they actually planning for success?
They're planning for success.
If you plan for failure, never actually take action on anything, despite what all the stuff you see on the internet, what's going to result from that? Do you want to allow that to happen? Because like, ultimately, this is a choice, dude.
