At a young age of 26, Mr Adam Khoo made his first million dollars. Today, at the age of 37, he's a multi-millionaire continually giving "motivational" talks to people all over South-east Asia. Many will regard him as a philanthropist as he wants to "help" others to find their source of motivation and his secrets on earning his first million dollars.
This will just be a food for thought and there's no intention to scar his reputation. Adam owns a company know as the Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG) that provides workshops and talks targeting working adults, professionals, youths etc. I'll not beat around the bush any further by proclaiming that that he charges extremely high rate for a talk. I've experienced it myself. My school, engaged his 'apprentices' to talk for a whole day at an audience of about 100 students and each has to pay $200 odd for this talk.
This contradicts the fact that they're concerned about our well-being and tries to motivate us right? Apparently, their targeted customers are those who are rich, because if you send your child to his workshop with only has 5 people in it, it easily cost about $4000. I've done my researches on this. Adam trains about 20-odd of his staff on how to give talks and of course professional and dynamic speeches. Technically speaking, if you're running 3 hotels and earning big-time, will you want to give talks to people to work as him and not wanting to care about your hotels and earn yourself maybe around a $1000 for a talk?
Now into what goes into the talk. The workshop splits into 2 groups with about a 100 students in it. I happened to be in a group that starts at a later date. The trainers were talking about his life story for all we care, and astonishingly, their 'special' stories like they told us that they ordered McDonalds the day before, and this was repeated at the second talk. It was all staged and rehearsed! It goes to show that the whole group consists of what I call actors, I wouldn't call them con-artists because they did what they wanted to do, to motivate.
Group of actors indeed, I'm extremely disgusted at the fact that we already paid a hefty amount of money for this talk and the trainers were attacking their audience emotionally. How ridiculous! I guess those whom really needs motivation like those from poor family background can't even attend this course with such high rates.
Back to Adam, where he supposedly earned his million dollar from giving speeches at a rate of $1000/hour. Who gives talk and earns so much? Its like asking yourself if a beggar can even a thousand dollar a month by begging near a graveyard. Did he do something else to earn so much like investments?
He was said to be an 'under-achiever' when in primary school but after attending a camp, he was motivated and has all the accolades imaginable. Is this a make-up as well that he's born smart and the "under-achiever" thing was just another way to make people motivated?
I feel an air of hypocrisy around him, there'a chain email some time back when he was asked why he was taking an economy class flight and not business one since he's a millionaire. Then he starts to tell the person that that's how he became a millionaire by saving and scrimping, taking economy flights, drive a normal 'car'. Ok, I'll end it here. Adam owns a private apartment in East Coast. On top of that, he has 2 maids and drives a red Chevrolet convertible. You call that normal car and scrimping?
Of course he may manage to motivate a few and is a good person, but I feel he's so focused on earning money . Not that I'm jealous of his wealth, butI don't think he's the kind philanthropist that many made him out to be.