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Snorkeling and business
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For snorkeling, you:
On the other side, you also experience more resistance: sun, wind, currents, more people snorkeling around —if you're in the Caribbean, 15 - 20 people?. And depending of where you are, noise, boats, more people trying to see the same thing, clutter. The more crowded, the less likely to see animals. The fun can become boring or annoying. Translating this to business, snorkeling is like something sold, used, or perceived as a commodity: highly competitive, not quite specialized, low and controlled risk... And while it's fun and simple to work on, it can quickly become boring or annoying —or turn you to burnout. |
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...