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Alden Tan
13 min readJan 30, 2019

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This is what I think of the “life coaches” out there. And this is going to be controversial and piss a lot of people off. Not that I give a fuck.

Life coaches write a bunch of crappy blog posts or put up boring YouTube videos of themselves talking about life and then call themselves “experts.”

Their definition of what entails a good life centers around topics of finding purpose, passion, quitting your job to do what you love and socializing with people (because apparently you need a lot of friends and you have to please everybody in life to have a good life.)

Because the above topics are too general, their lead magnet to capture your attention, whereby they ask you to fill in your details to get their free newsletter or whatever is engineered to be more specific to capture your attention. It is usually entirely off-topic and has nothing to do with their so-called expertise in “life.” So, you’ll find that a lot of life coaches are also experts in picking up girls, creating a business online, social media or life coaching itself, whatever the fuck that means.

In order to show that they’re more qualified, some of them go for life coach training. In other words, instead of studying real, important things like psychology, sociology or philosophy, they decide to go to some place to study how to…

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