Kowalski's opinion is that paying for anything out there is stupid when all the information is in the free domain anyway when you look hard enough - that's without any sort of piracy at all.

It's also that bootcamps are a magic bullet sales tactic that promise the whole world while delivering nothing. Less than 1% of people would get anything more than a kiss on bootcamps and leave with nothing more than a rudimentary knowledge of all the basic information in the industry that can be gained from a few hours reading anyway.

Changing from someone who is generally incompetent to someone that is competent is a task that takes time and a steady emotional and intellectual change, not merely because you need confidence but because you need time to see the results of incremental changes in your demeanour in order to make them natural parts of your behaviour.

The general opinion here is that you should join a community (such as this one) and meet some guys in your area or travel to an area with some guys using the community. You should then use that community as an ear(so to speak) in order to bounce you experiences off and give feedback while you explore who you are and who you'd like to become through the events that occur on your journey.

That about right guys?

EDIT: To clarify - That's not my opinion, not entirely. It's not that far removed though.