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Repeating yourself
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To be a "thought leader", they say you need to be authentic, original and come up with new, innovative, disruptive ideas that no one has ever said before. That you can't repeat yourself. Buillshit. It's fine to repeat yourself. In fact, do that. Like in music, add some new riffs, new instruments, new versions, new interpretations. Say the same thing, in as many ways as you can. You'll find new angles, new holes to fill, new spaces to leave, new ways to see. Just like a song and its own versions and covers. They say the same thing, in many different ways. Like Fast Car Or if you're into something more powerful: Bulls On Parade On repeat, |
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...