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“Began a pay-on-results coaching experiment, made $40,300 since July” by Chipmonk

2024/12/30
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Thanks to Stag Lynn, Anna Salmon, CFAR, Alex Zhu, Brian Toomey, Kaj Sotala, Damon Sasi, and lots more for all of the help! Previously: Pay-on-results personal growth: first success https://x.com/ChrisChipMonk/status/1873101046199038301 To validate my research, I began offering pay-on-results coaching in July. Clients have paid $40,300 so far upon achieving their goals:

lifelong anxiety → being called “adventurous”: $3,000 earned lifelong pushover → assertive: $3,000 earned “in crisis” → “light and hopeful”: $5,000 earned blocked on romance whole life → asking out crushes: $3,500 earned “net suffering has greatly diminished”: $7,500 earned first week ever of no procrastination: $7,500 earned eliminating an unwanted habit: $2,000 earned increased flow during work: $7,500 earned ......... (more cooking)

(I spend just ~8 hours per week coaching.) An innovation here is a way to measure results: Results are measured by bounties paid by clients one or more months after, in my bank [...]


Outline:

(02:15) Why did I start doing bounties?

(06:02) 21 more unstructured thoughts:

(15:08) Place a bounty:


First published: December 29th, 2024

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mbwgdfnz6tPeTgzMa/began-a-pay-on-results-coaching-experiment-made-usd40-300)

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