if you're like most people you've heard
of masterclass a course system where you
get to learn from the best in the
industry about exactly what they do but
you're probably asking yourself is it
worth it or what does it come with well
in today's video I'm gonna show you
exactly that as well as my personal
opinion on whether or not it stands up
to what our expectations are now if
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master class claims that they have the
best teachers in the world teaching but
is that really true well you've got
teachers like Steph Curry teaching
basketball
you've got Samuel Jackson teaching
acting and also maybe how to say the F
bomb correctly Gordon Ramsay teaching
how to cook Martin Scorsese teaching
filmmaking and the big reason why I got
interested is because you have a score
of top-notch writers teaching you all
writing skills like Aurel Stein James
Patterson Malcolm Gladwell Margaret
Atwood I mean the list goes on and the
cool part is they just keep adding even
more just recently they added one about
wine tasting from some guy that I'm sure
is like famous in Napa Valley or some
wine tasting communities but super cool
to be able to dig in and well it was
that's pretty neat so to answer your
question yeah I think it's safe to say
they probably have the best in the
industry teaching their subject matter
so I'll give them an A plus on the
teacher criteria so how much does it
cost right well the way that master
class works it is there's two options
you can either buy one of their courses
for 90 dollars and get it for life or
you pay a hundred and eighty dollars and
you get access to every course they have
for one year so if you're sitting there
thinking to yourself well there's only
one that I really want watch then
perhaps the 90 dollars is best but I'm
not gonna lie there's a lot of cool
things in there and I'm sure you'll find
something that you're interested in but
a bit of warning though a lot of people
will sign up for the one-year
subscription and they have the intention
of sitting down and watching it they
don't actually get to it I have a couple
of friends who said they bought it and
they realized they actually haven't
watched so really think about whether or
not you are going to sit down and watch
these courses or if just getting the one
course that you
and having that for life is the best
option all right so let's assume that
you signed up for the all-access pass
what does it come with what do you have
is it just videos well first things
first is you get access to every video
for those courses and usually the videos
run between two to four hours depending
on the lesson you also get downloadable
course notes and even a class workbook
with notes and places to write notes for
yourself which I'm not much of a
note-taker so I didn't really use that
that much you also get a downloadable
fundamental guide but I thought this was
like super fundamental and I totally
didn't see any value in this so I I
don't know but the thing I did love most
is the question-and-answer section
called the office hours it's really cool
because there some of the student takers
have posted a video a short concise
video with questions and the actual
teacher is answering them I found some
really awesome nuggets because as I was
watching one course for example the
deadmau5 one I had a whole bunch of
questions and I was really jazzed to
find out that somebody had the same
thing and that was addressed right there
another thing too in that section was I
happen to be there when Aurel Stein was
doing a live one and I got to see him
talk and yeah the kid in me was really
really jazzed about that it was really
nice to hear mr. goose bumps talking
about how he came up with his first
story all right so now that we know how
much it costs as well as what you get
with those courses the next question is
is how good are the courses this is a
bit of a hard question to answer because
the truth is every one of them was very
different for example Wolfgang Puck had
a very structured course and it also
came with recipes that you could turn
around take action and cook the same
thing however when I was listening to
Malcolm Gladwell he was sort of like the
strategy and art of writing and I didn't
find there was a lot that I could take
turn around and turn into practical
instead it was more like sitting there
having a nice scotch with him hearing
him just unload his thoughts about
non-fiction writing so throughout I kept
finding that the different courses were
kind of based off of the style and the
teaching points in the subject matter of
that expert so it ranged from really
practical to maybe a longer high-level
TEDx again this is kind of a subjective
opinion
I only found maybe one or two out of the
30-plus to be not worth the time but the
others I felt were pretty cool but if
you do do the all-access pass
make sure that you sit down and you
schedule time to watch it my wife and I
had a really cool tool where instead of
sitting down at eight o'clock to watch
our next Netflix binge we just open up
Apple TV and had the app there and
access master class you can also use
airplay from your phone or from your
laptop to send it to your TV if you do
that you're gonna get a lot out of it
one hundred and eighty dollars a next
point is that while they had top-notch
teachers and I mean the best of the best
and it's kind of starstruck to listen to
them talk about it I did find that the
course is varied some are really cool
others seem very strategic and I had two
of them in particular kind of missed the
mark but don't go into it expecting that
you're going to become a master at
basketball or the next Martin Scorsese
and film make think of it more like a
very high-level discussion that's like
icing on the cake and hopefully if
you've already baked that cake and
finally sitting down and watching the
videos is really cool and there's a lot
that they provide however though be sure
to check the comments if you really care
to learn more in deadmau5 I knuckle I
have always had this like dream to one
day become an electronic dance music
maker EDM yeah it's kind of nerdy eyed
not gonna lie
but I felt like there's a lot of
technical questions that I had and when
I was scrolling through the comments I
found some amazing points people who had
been like doing it for a bit were
explaining certain pieces or tech
answers and things like that it was
really cool but there were a lot of
comments people comment all the time so
you're gonna have to scroll a bit don't
miss those you'll find some really good
nuggets
all right so overall I think 180 dollars
is pretty good especially for the level
of content in the amount of content they
have plus they're always adding to it
you never know what you're gonna find
now I have a better wine appreciation
thanks to the latest installment but
don't fall into the trap that a lot of
people do where they sign up for it and
then they actually never watch it that's
180 dollars wasted so if you decide to
take the plunge be sure to schedule it
out make sure to have it be a part of a
routine like my wife and I did at night
and then at that point you've got really
cool content you're getting your money's
worth and you're hopefully grow
experiencing more in the things you want
to grow and with that I'm Dave Chesson
of Kindlepreneur signing off
Cheers
you
