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Telling your stories and making millions by giving your personal advice to others.  Burchard has videos here on how to give great advice.  He has spoken at Tony Robbins' seminars.

"But not knowing what plagiarism is isn't really the problem. It'sunfortunate that right now the university is cracking down so hard onplagiarism. And the reason the university is cracking down so hard on plagiarism is because their product is less and less valuable thesedays. When students plagiarize, there's an implicit recognition that"I'm just doing this for the grade." That's why they do it. And that'sthe way that the majority of students look at the university, and havebeen for some time now."

Boredom for a subject does not reflect a defect in the subject, but in our understanding of it. In the ears of the ignorant, a foreign language is a monotonous barrage of meaningless intonations, but knowledge of its grammar transforms sound into speech, capable of conveying Shakespeare's or Plato's meaning. The surface of Mars seems to me a tiresome landscape of red dirt, but to an astrophysicist who speaks the obscure language of rocks, it is a crossword puzzle written by the Big Bang. We protest to the passionate not to bore us with details, not realizing that lack of details is precisely what bores us, for details reveal the richness and inner coherence that are invisible from a distance, as a microscope reveals teeming life in a drop of muddy pond water. ...