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THE UNIVERSITY OF REASON PRESENTS

The AUTONOMY
Course of Breakthrough Actions

You move from waiting for permission to producing value on command.

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THE WORK01

A course you put to work

You move from waiting for permission to producing value on command.

You build the critical-thinking, ethical sales, clear communication, and market-creation skills that give you real leverage in any career, business, or economy. You unlock the ability to earn more, protect your family’s future, and make decisions with calm certainty.

And you don’t do it alone. You do it inside a living, worldwide community of people from every walk of life — career-changers, parents, seekers, creators, entrepreneurs, and working professionals — who are committed to becoming more capable, and who keep showing up to help one another do the same.

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THE PATH · TWELVE LECTURES

The Step-by-Step Road Ahead — Starting October 9th

Everything inside AUTONOMY is laid out to build your confidence and capability one solid step at a time.

Each phase naturally connects to the next, helping you clear away the mental fog, find your footing, build skills that genuinely matter, and turn your hard work into dependable income and lasting stability.

Together, we move from feeling stuck or uncertain into real clarity, daily momentum, and the practical ability to create your own opportunities.

01De-Schooling
02The Thinking Compass
03Ethical Influence
04Market Infrastructure
05Operations and Graduation
LECTURE01

Orientation & Expectations

  • Shedding mental anchors, limiting beliefs, and false assumptions
  • How to consistently add value to the lives of others
  • Adopting and maintaining an attitude of gratitude
  • Getting organized and managing your time
  • Why the value of integrity is important in all aspects of life
AUTONOMY lecture 01: Orientation & Expectations
LECTURE02

Unlocking Your Potential

  • How and why your potential has been thwarted
  • Investing your time and energy vs. spending it
  • Taking systematic action to remove obstacles
  • Casting aside learned helplessness and transforming fear
  • Recognizing that your potential is immense!
AUTONOMY lecture 02: Unlocking Your Potential
LECTURE03

Igniting Your Potential

  • Releasing the baggage holding you back from success
  • Breaking out of a scarcity mindset and into one of abundance
  • How to leverage our failures calmly and coolly
  • Discovering how to use life experience as life skills
  • Invoking your conscious choice to make change in your life
AUTONOMY lecture 03: Igniting Your Potential
LECTURE04

Directing Your Potential

  • Choosing your destination and identifying your path
  • Taking action to actualize what you want
  • Gaining confidence to become competent
  • Converting negative habits into productive ones
  • Putting fear and distraction behind to focus on success
AUTONOMY lecture 04: Directing Your Potential
LECTURE05

The Productive Mindsets of Prosperity

  • Taking action toward defining then realizing your goals
  • Re-prioritizing your time to pick up momentum
  • How to identify invisible problems and self-motivate
  • Dispensing with apathy and confronting your fears
  • Gaining the raw materials to construct long-lasting success
AUTONOMY lecture 05: The Productive Mindsets of Prosperity
LECTURE06

The Productive Skill Sets of Prosperity

  • Recognizing limiting beliefs that aren't serving you
  • Building your confidence through repetition
  • Collecting the skills you need for your life's journey
  • How to talk about challenging subjects
  • How to schedule your success and leverage new habits
AUTONOMY lecture 06: The Productive Skill Sets of Prosperity
LECTURE07

The High-Value Skill Sets of Prosperity

  • Assets, liabilities, and skills to pay the bills
  • Devising a plan to exchange value with others
  • Understanding that listening is the key to the Art of Sales
  • Defining the skills of a genuine salesperson
  • How to sell without selling your soul
AUTONOMY lecture 07: The High-Value Skill Sets of Prosperity
LECTURE08

The Art of Empowering Others

  • Being an honest problem solver who provides tremendous value
  • Building rapport with others without being manipulative
  • How to better understand your prospects and identify their needs
  • Knowing success is reliant upon one's impetus to help others
  • Escaping scarcity and building a culture of excellence
AUTONOMY lecture 08: The Art of Empowering Others
LECTURE09

Elements of Entrepreneurism

  • Gaining confidence through taking action
  • How to create, price, and market a product or service
  • Knowing what 'done right' looks like
  • How to prioritize your actions and time
  • How you can be a valuable asset to the course of action
AUTONOMY lecture 09: Elements of Entrepreneurism
LECTURE10

Turning Pixels into Profit

  • Knowing the most valuable asset you have is your mind
  • How to craft an effective offer and communicate it effectively
  • How to bridge the gap between education and action
  • Leveraging your skills to have more money than you need
  • Understanding the essential components of internet marketing
AUTONOMY lecture 10: Turning Pixels into Profit
LECTURE11

Internet Marketing

  • Learn the anatomy of a money-printing machine
  • Creating engaging lead magnets that deliver value
  • Best practices for landing pages and opt-ins
  • Learn the key to turning traffic into sales
  • Tripwire products, podcasts, and optimizing resources
AUTONOMY lecture 11: Internet Marketing
LECTURE12

Graduation & Beyond

  • Putting all the puzzle pieces together
  • How to win a rigged game
  • How and why this roadmap was created
  • Taking consistent action to move you closer to your goals
  • Paving the way for what's next
AUTONOMY lecture 12: Graduation & Beyond
BUILT FOR REAL LIFE~10hours / week

Built for Real Life & Accessible Anywhere

Designed to Fit Your Schedule — Around 10 Hours a Week.

Built for adults balancing work, family, business, and everything that makes up an actual week. The typical pace is around ten focused hours—enough for steady practice without putting the rest of life on hold.

The season offers far more material than that weekly rhythm requires. Use the recordings, exercises, and live opportunities in the mix that works for you.

Join live when it works. The complete archive is there when it doesn’t.

THE FULL SEASON, IN YOUR CORNER

A deep library. A workable weekly rhythm.

Ten hours is the typical weekly pace—not a tally of every live session available. Use the archive and exercises to shape a rhythm that fits your life.

Live course

  • Live course lectures with AUTONOMY Navigator Richard Grove12 lectures · 48+ hours
  • Friday night after-lecture Q&As with Richard Grove12 sessions · 60+ hours
  • Sunday Q&As with Richard Grove12 sessions · 60+ hours
  • Tuesday night Rainmaker Ethical Sales Training with Richard Grove and team8 workshops · 32+ hours

Keep learning

  • Complete on-demand season archiveAll lectures, Q&As and workshops, recorded for on-demand access
  • Pre-recorded bonus lectures15+ hours of additional teaching
  • Weekly integration exercisesTurn each idea into deliberate practice

Put it into practice

  • Guided Live Dojo roomsPractice skills in a structured setting
  • Student Do It Live! podcast hosting opportunityA chance to share your learning on mic
  • Entrepreneurial mastermind accessWork through real business questions with peers
  • AUTONOMY Graduation courses and bonusesContinue the work beyond the season
  • Internationally friendly time zonesOptions designed for students joining from around the world

Live and archived hours describe the full range of included material; they are not a weekly attendance requirement.

ANOTHER WAY THROUGH

AUTONOMY SOLO

The full season, on your own terms.

Prefer a self-guided route? SOLO includes the recorded full season—12 lectures and 48+ hours of teaching—along with archived Rainmaker and Q&A sessions and weekly exercises to work through at your own pace.

Already in SOLO? Explore the available upgrade path when you’re ready for the wider course.

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THE COURSE IN CONTEXT12-WEEK PATH

SEASON 16 LIVE LECTURES BEGIN OCTOBER 9TH

Step into the momentum of our next live semester.

While our worldwide community and course archives are active year-round, October 9th marks the kickoff of our brand-new live lecture series for Season 16.

Enrolling now allows you to experience the curriculum as it unfolds in real time, attend live Q&A sessions, and build alongside fellow members. And because every session is recorded and permanently archived, you can progress at your own pace without the fear of falling behind if life gets busy or you have schedule conflicts.

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YOUR NEXT STEP

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