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2 dangerous things in business
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There are 2 dangerous things in a world of fit-ins (besides being standard/average/best-practice): → Fit in Imagine this: you’re a square and have to mold yourself to fit in a circle shape, because everyone else is a circle. In the end, you’re still a square, only now hiding your edge. → Blend in Picture yourself as a color. You’re a color (choose your fave one) and get into a blender with other colors. You get blended in dissolving and dissipating your hue and intensity. You get an average color. What's the way out? Un-fit and un-blend. Or being a misfit —to the standards and "best-practices". |
Rod Aparicio
Finding The Gap
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If you're focused on what you're going to say next. On how to make your argument more solid. On how your point is the valid (and true) one. No matter what your counterparty says, you'll hear what you want to hear. You'll listen to either reply or present. And that's no conversation. The same is with your prospects and customers. If you don't meet them where they are, if you try to convince them —or influence them— and they're not at that stage, they won't hear you. Here's a work around: Focus...
Internet connection problems. So here's a great article by Tim Williams on the same subject of expertise. :) Getting Paid for Years - Ignition Group.
"If I do a job in 30 minutes it's because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes." Nonsense. This whole argument assumes that to know something, it's about the effort you put on. About the time you "spent" in learning the thing. How much it meant, in terms of effort, for you to do something. It takes that if something feels as simple as breathing to you, but not for others, it shouldn't be valuable. Or that for it to be valuable, you...