Always be skeptical of advice that feels targeted to genuine laziness. This is different from beginner advice, or advice that is meant to be accessible. Someone saying "This might seem complicated to an outsider, but with a bit of time it'll all make sense, and you'll realize it's nowhere near as impenetrable as it seemed!" is totally fine! But if someone says their method requires "no work," or it gets "real results in no time," alarms should go off in your brain.
Whether it's a machine you can supposedly feed a single sentence into and receive the next Avengers: Endgame, or a $2,000 course that'll make you a wealthy entrepreneur living solely off passive income in 12 months, appealing to instant gratification and minimal effort is the craft of a conman.
This is going to sound like advice from your grandparents, but it's true: Nothing worth a damn comes for free. Whether it costs money, time, passion or heartbreak, things that have value are not created from thin air. If they were, they wouldn't have value, because anyone could have their own.
If someone could really generate 100 Avengers movies with a button, would they be selling you the button, or would they be making billions in the box office? If someone could really create such a reliable investment/business strategy that it could make even the least-savvy Joe out there a millionaire, would they be selling courses online, or would they be running a successful business?
Always ask if you're being sold gold, or if you're sold a shovel.
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