The 5 Worst Motivational Speakers

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Do you get turned on by motivational stuff?

I mean, have you ever bought a motivational compact disc or tape? I have. Some are pretty good, not gonna lie.

You which one is the best? “Think and Grow Rich” by Napolean Hill. OK so that’s one great book out of who-knows how many motivational books have been written and tapes recorded.

Today we’d like to focus on all of the less-than motivational gurus out there. You know the guys that used to walk around school with a really ‘positive’ attitude…
Positive Mental Attitude

(I don’t want to know what that dude does when he gets home.)

OK. So we put together a list of motivational speakers and authors that, for some reason, bother the heck out of us. Here’s one.

Tim Ferriss


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2 Hour Work Week, Now that’s funny

He’s the guy behind the 2 Hour Work Week. Or is it 3 Hour? I don’t know. Either way it bogus. He’s all about trying to be the most interesting man in the universe…But guess what Ferriss, you’re not. This guy already claimed that title..
If You Say so…

Their both full of it.

Next up…

Malcolm Gladwell

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ACADEMIA INCARNATE

We can’t be the only website calling this guy out, can we? Not sure what bothers us more, Gladwell’s overall appearance or his know-it-all attitude.

With supremely marketed books such as “Blink” and the “Tipping Point,” Gladwell points out obvious stuff about things then writes about them in un-obvious ways – fooling people to make them think he is brilliant. I could picture Gladwell writing a book called Sliced Bread – where he talks about bread before it was sliced and asserts that the genius wasn’t the guy who started slicing bread but his friend who tore chunks off of loaves and fed them to his family, or some bullshit. Sorry for the French but this guy is the worst.

Next we will switch gears to books.

Purple Cow.

Man, we just read this book and I feel like a “Purple Cow” for spending more than ten bucks on it. WTF. OK so at least this wasn’t supposed to be motivational I think…but it’s a marketing book. (Aren’t all of these guys just really good marketers anyways?)

The author Seth Godin’s buzzword is “Remarkable.” As in “Be Remarkable!!!” Yeah, I’d like to watch him walk into a construction site or small business with people hard at work, talking this “be remarkable” nonsense. Here’s the guy who wrote it.

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Be..REMARKABLE!

Hey Godin, let me get my ten bucks back?

Last but not least, someone who I admittedly know very little about, yet fear just the same…

Tony Robbins
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Pretty sure that Robbins is richer than God. The man gets thousands of people to walk on burning coal at his motivational shows. That’s cool. But seriously, Robbins has you all fired up in that moment to shuttle your ass over some piping hot coals right? Now, where are you a week later? You’ve got a deadline breathing down your neck and family to feed, where’s Robbins now? He ain’t getting you all fired up for that is he? No, but he will be at the Staples Center June 20-29th for the price of admission.

Oh yeah and Oprah is a big Robbins fan…whatever that means. She’s another one we should add to this list. Let us know yours below…


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