More examples of questioning. When I started the online training world, I kind of did it the way other people did it. Now I was early in the game, I started doing this in the late 1990s. Believe it or not, it's been more than 20 years. Then I did courses in the early 2000s. And I would hire a production crew, they were edited all of that.

But then one day, about five years ago, I said, Why am I doing this? Why am I editing it the way everyone else is? And I started making courses where I didn't do any editing. So the vast majority of my courses, especially those on public speaking communication skills, I do every single lecture without at it and I do it in one take. Guess what, that makes me much more productive than my competitors because it saves me so much time. My editing consists of hitting the record button on and then hitting it off.

The video is done. This saves me massive amounts of time. And based on the reviews I have for all of my other courses, students like it. Out of 110,000 student enrollments so far, I've had exactly two people ever complain that my courses weren't edited and didn't have a lot of B roll and video and images and pretty pictures and graphics and special effects. That's two people out of 110,000 students. And at this point, more than 400,000 total student enrollments on this one platform.

So why would I want to do what everyone else does? It adds up to a lot of time and money. And I don't have any evidence that editing courses makes them makes them more effective. The question I have to other instructors always is, think of the best teacher you ever had in high school or college with a great teachers because they never said or, or never made a mistake or never had to scratch their forehead during the lecture. Of course, the answer is no. They're great teachers, great professors, because they brought a great passion to their subject.

And they taught it with passion and they answered questions and they gave engaging assignments. That's what made them great, not the fact that everything was edited and there was music and special effects. So that's why I've been very pleased with my decision to make courses without a lot of editing or special effects. That's what saves me massive amounts of time. But also, I believe it ultimately helps my students more because there are plenty of edited Highly produced, public speaking courses that are 15 minutes an hour, two hours long. Mine's the only one that's 29 hours long.

So if you really want in depth, insight and knowledge, you kind of have to come to my courses on public speaking communication skill. And I don't mean to sound overly promotional here. I'm not trying to sell you on the other courses, just letting you know. That's why they sell well, their best sellers is because I have so much more content than others. Is it because I spend more time on my courses? No.

I'm willing to bet I spent less time making my courses than other instructors do. But because I questioned the assessment of the the basic assumption people have about you have to have everything edited and you have to have special effects. I can produce it so much faster. And that's what I like. allows me to give more content, more in depth knowledge to people. It's also why the courses do well.

Is there ever an imperfection? Sure. About 60 seconds ago, I said the wrong word. I said assessment rather than assumption. I just kept on going, because I made the judgment that it wouldn't have a negative impact on us. You'd still get the gist of it Plus, it's now a learning moment that I'm talking about right here.

So please, always question the way other people do it and look for a faster way. An easy way. Don't necessarily cut corners but a faster way where you can get actually better results than what other people are doing.