- Joined
- Aug 14, 2022
The War Room predates HU, because he took people from The War Room to be HU's "professors".
The cost serves two purposes: One, to make it expensive to spy on him. Two, to give people sunk cost fallacy. Once someone has paid the amount, they want to get the most of it. It's difficult to spy on him because that thing has multiple layers, which evidently you can only enter by "proving" yourself.
If I get it correctly, HU is only the first step to lead people to a higher price point with the ultimate goal of accessing the War Room? Cause $50 is hardly a big commitment. I guess that's even more sneaky than I thought. It's a gradual financial enlisement.
In the Full Send podcast he says there's "tasks, tests, things you must do to keep your place or you're booted". This is why it resembles the mafia, or a cult (Scientology: Pay money and do tasks to get more "knowledge"). Rather than straightforwardly getting people to refer others, that's simply one of many ways to extract value from them.
This on the other hand is so common. It's also often really biased in that you are actually judged on the results rather than effort or actual skills. Many will encourage you to burn a lot of cash in ads, even at a loss or to buy other courses. It's part of the learning experience, they do everything for you, but are you really committed to making big stacks of money?
It also means that it creates a climate of fear in what is often group calls/online communities. Nobody wants to speak out about anything, because they could risk losing it all. They know it can happen. There cannot be any healthy discussion in these conditions. If you dare complain about anything, they will exclude you on the basis that you're just trying to find excuses for your failures. They will also encourage others not to associate with you. It absolutely is cult mentality.