My feeling about the phrase “Mastermind Group” is fairly negative. I have heard people mention it from time to time and knew it was from Napoleon Hill, who was kind of the inventor of the self-help/self-improvement book. The phrase is something I associate, I think reasonably, with the whole culture of self-improvement seminars and content that descends from Hill—what used to be authors/speakers like Tony Robbins and is now also really big on YouTube. The kind of thing where someone is going to sell you a course on how to get rich, and the way to get rich is to learn to successfully sell a course on how to get rich.
Take this for what it’s worth—just one person’s possibly skewed gut reaction to this phrase. I think the idea of peers meeting in a group to support each other remains sound.
I can see your concern and coming up with a new name could be nice. On the other hand, I suspect most EAs wouldn’t be too concerned if we use a tool internally in a way that works for us while it’s also being used by others for less useful purposes.
Seconded. I think that the association with scammy MLMs is pretty strong. That being said, if EA simply branded it slightly differently that would remove my concerns: learning circle, accountability club, Junto, etc.
My feeling about the phrase “Mastermind Group” is fairly negative. I have heard people mention it from time to time and knew it was from Napoleon Hill, who was kind of the inventor of the self-help/self-improvement book. The phrase is something I associate, I think reasonably, with the whole culture of self-improvement seminars and content that descends from Hill—what used to be authors/speakers like Tony Robbins and is now also really big on YouTube. The kind of thing where someone is going to sell you a course on how to get rich, and the way to get rich is to learn to successfully sell a course on how to get rich.
Take this for what it’s worth—just one person’s possibly skewed gut reaction to this phrase. I think the idea of peers meeting in a group to support each other remains sound.
I can see your concern and coming up with a new name could be nice. On the other hand, I suspect most EAs wouldn’t be too concerned if we use a tool internally in a way that works for us while it’s also being used by others for less useful purposes.
Seconded. I think that the association with scammy MLMs is pretty strong. That being said, if EA simply branded it slightly differently that would remove my concerns: learning circle, accountability club, Junto, etc.