'YOU CAN CREATE WEALTH': HYPERBOLE OR UNDERSTATEMENT?

I have recently received an email invitation to attend an evening preview of 'You Can Create Wealth' seminar in a local hotel from the organiser, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

What has intrigued me most are the following contradictory statements:

"More than 65,000 participants have attended..." at the beginning of the email;

"More than 70,000 participants have been mentored..." next to the cv of the Master Trainer;

Strangely, I just wonder where did the additional 5,000 mysterious participants come from?

Most interestingly, the Master Trainer is reportedly a Chartered Accountant.

If he couldn't reconcile his own "numbers", how could he teach participants "wealth creation" principles?

My pragmatic take is this: people who proclaim to teach "wealth creation" principles often do not create wealth from the methods they preach. Their so-called "wealth" obviously comes from the many lucrative seminars they run or the numerous books they sell.

Personally, I know of a very well-known trainer who often goes around advertising about the first million he has acquired before the age of 30, while practising the 'wealth dynamics' methods he teaches.

The real truth came from the horse's mouth (before he became famous): The main bulk of the first million came from his mother.

It is sad that there are intelligent people out there who are still gullible to "get rich schemes" from spurious purveyors.