Blog 3511 – 06.14.2025

“Too Good To Be True”

The above two expressions are used to promote a bit of what I call healthy skepticism and sales resistance. I have long prided myself that my own general optimism is tempered by a bit of skepticism and sales resistance yet from time to time I have been taken in by clever advertising that promises way more than what is delivered and failing to verify the validity of incredible claims I have wasted my money on what turned to be an obvious scam.

I do not choose to think of myself as a victim, but as a student. As Bruce Wayne’s dad tells him when he is a boy after breaking his arm falling through the wooden covering of an abandoned well, “Why to we fall, Bruce, so we can learn to pick ourselves up.” Some lessons are not so easily learned or are so easily forgotten that we require retraining.

Whenever an offer or opportunity seems too good to be true, it probably is and at the very least we should attempt to check it out before we buy especially when the old limited time offer with a clock ticking is employed.

I am sharing this because I believe admitting our mistakes is one of the best ways of preventing us from repeating the same mistakes over and over. It is humbling and embarrassing to own up to our own culpability and gullibility and yet that red faced and egg-faced image of ourselves in the mirror is a good reminder to not let ourselves be taken in by the scam artists.

Another cliche that speaks to lessons learned the hard way is “Once bitten twice shy.” If it sounds too good to be true, my friends, it probably isn’t true, so buyer beware.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

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