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Jenny Scott's avatar

Liked this essay! Agree about the dopamine hit of buying something. (Is it like the feeling of accomplishment when you talk about doing something vs doing it?) I wonder how many people bailed because of life stuff, or the “identity patterns” you identified, or bc of “the expectation-reality mismatch.” And I really really liked the phrase/insight “abandoning the course is abandoning yourself.”

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Ved Shankar's avatar

I've started thinking about online courses as expensive books. No point finishing the course if I got the info I need and I can go and do my thing to practice/apply it

But I think these course completion rates are why CBC became more popular but i've seen other models work like:

1. Limited time access to the material

2. Online recordings + optional Q&A to feel like a CBC while keeping flexibility

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Nat Lee's avatar

What does CBC stand for?

That said, I have no issues with people applying what they learnt in the course. But in the specific course I was in, it was a process-based course where you do not “complete” the process until the last day.

Somewhat like WOP, if you zoomed through the recordings alone without going through the process of writing gyms etc, you might have missed out on the full learning!

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Ah my bad. CBC is Cohort Based Courses (like WOP)

Ah and I'm guessing it was hard to follow through with the process without some accountability?

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Nat Lee's avatar

okay, TIL I learnt a new thing! Haha

The point of that course was to complete the full 3 weeks which had a series of actions that got progressively more challenging. You could skip ahead and decide to cram it into a week, but part of the process was to do it sustainably and not get stuck.

Eg because you can create content 3 days in a row, doesn’t mean you can do so 5 or 21 days. You don’t know until you hit day 22.

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