How It Works
Self Made College teaches you to read people, read situations, spot the game, make more money, save money, and make better decisions in any field.
We take street knowledge and real-life observations about work, money, people, power, business, relationships, negotiation, success and failure, then connect them to established disciplines that explain what is actually happening underneath the surface.
What We Cover
Behavioral Economics
How incentives, biases, scarcity, loss aversion and framing influence what people do with money.
Game Theory
How to recognize strategy, cooperation, betrayal, bluffing, leverage and the next move.
Social Psychology
How status, groups, authority, conformity and social pressure change people's behavior.
Cognitive Psychology
How people misread reality, make assumptions and convince themselves they're right when they're wrong.
Metacognition
How to think about your own thinking, question your interpretation and separate what you know from what you assume.
Decision Theory
How to weigh risk, reward, opportunity cost, uncertainty and the consequences of being wrong.
Negotiation Theory
How leverage, alternatives, anchors, concessions and walking away change a negotiation.
Signaling Theory
How people signal money, status, competence, confidence, loyalty and intent, and when those signals are fake.
Information Economics
How knowing something the other person doesn't creates advantage, and how to recognize when you're on the wrong side of it.
Organizational Behavior
How companies actually work: politics, incentives, unwritten rules, reorganizations and who really makes decisions.
Power & Network Theory
Who has influence, who has access, who controls information and why the biggest title doesn't always hold the most power.
Systems & Complexity Thinking
How incentives, people and systems interact, and why one move can create consequences nobody expected.
Rhetoric & Persuasion
How words, framing, narratives and emotion are used to influence what you believe and what you do.
How We Teach It
Every course has five modules. Everyday shit. Not classroom theory.
The lessons come from the real world: the journey from minimum wage to multiple six figures, corporate offices and boardrooms, sales floors and negotiations, businesses won and lost, money made and wasted, and lessons learned alongside best friends whose paths went from high school to prison.
Different worlds. Same human behavior.
We take those observations, connect them to the disciplines above, and turn them into lessons you can recognize in your own life.
No textbook for the sake of a textbook. No theory just to sound smart.
See what is happening. Understand why it is happening. Think about your own thinking. Make the better move.
What Every Course Does
Every Self Made College course helps you understand why something happens, get in the other person's head, spot the game while it's happening, make your move, and up your game.
Most online courses end when you close the browser. Ours are built to be recognized in your own life the same week you learn them.
Read people. Read situations. Spot the game. Make more money. Save money. In any field.