Having worked in a consultative role, I can say the number one trait amongst those who are sucessful is:
Experience and Experiences.
Experience might be the degrees, it might be years of service, and it might be age. However, a person who immerses themselves into something, anything, head first gains that experience, which is a decided advantage over someone with only information.
Information is likened to the library. There's greater wealth in your local college or town library than anywhere else in the world, it's free, and yet, most towns annual income average is 50k. Free knowledge. Powerful information. Yet little worth. Why is that?
Experiences. Going through the experience grants wisdom and knowledge.
The experience is the value, not the thing gained or lost.
Henry Ford was once asked, if he lost everything, how long would it take to get it all back?
Mind you, this was over $1,000,000,000.
He said less than 5 years.
Experience created the value and he could now short-cut that through knowledge.
The DOING of the thing is more important than the THING. Many want to short-cut the experience part. To do so, learn from the masters. Read from the masters, but don't give into well-wishers who pretend to offer get rick quick schemes. It's the experiences of the experienced that make it valuable. Hence the power of the new book everybody is in a tizzy over, The Game.
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Those who get results, get paid.
End of story. Ball players are bought for their stats and expected production. Employees are bought for their expected average output or productivity. Rising above that level grants you the right to more income/money.
The EXPERIENCES make you or break you. Without experience, we are immature, and that's what separates maturity and immaturity. Wisdom is gained through doing and knowledge obtained by GOING through the act of doing it.
Sure, we can reduce relationships to paper, to demands, to supposedly technical efficiency on PUA boards, but does life operate in that manner???
The experiences make the men. The experiences break the boys.
Each experience will be different, and each time you'll gain knowledge and understanding.
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How this all came about was a conscious realization that my value in places I've succeeded came because I never hestitate to blaze a new trail or step forward to accept responsibility. Just because some path hasn't been tread, does not make it dangerous or given to failure. You may embark on the very journey that turns your life around, or toward the highest dreams imaginable.
Normally we do things, without knowing what it is that we do. And at times, knowing this or realizing it would make the difference. When you gain the experience, people come to you, they give to you, you're looked upon as a pillar of a family, or society.
Early knights were scarred, but if they made it to old age, that was a sure sign they were successful because they lived while others died.
Life is no different, only these scars are emotional, and some tend to fix them on their person. They're only meant to serve as a night light directing you not to bump into walls and down which path to go.
To me, it's worse to fret over something and 'wonder' than it is to do it and fail.
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Delighting in the battle scars we get is akin to being kids proud to show off our stiches. There are guys here who have posted on how 'they love being turned down' and they see how many rejections they can get. Whether you get rejected or not is not the goal...the goal is to acquire the experience of doing the chit chat, so you can gain clam understanding of the dynamics of a pickup or a conversation, depending on your frame.
The experience of life is what gains you an edge. CEO's are paid based on experience. There are lots of businessman in business with more years than most, but it's WHAT KIND OF YEARS they've had that matter. What did they do? What can they do?
Jim Rohn once pointed out how Michael Eisner got $50 million dollars in a year. He did so because he made the company several billion dollars. He brought results, BIG results (though he's not there anymore). That's leverage. He brought results to others' and was paid for his results, in what seems to be a small amount, say 5%??
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The more experiences you accumulate of varied kinds, the more valuable and successful you become. Yes, this is philosophical and based on actions you must apply, those which I can tell you, BUT, applying it to any area alleviates the stress of outcome planning, and replaces it with the thought of experience doing.
A-Unit
Experience and Experiences.
Experience might be the degrees, it might be years of service, and it might be age. However, a person who immerses themselves into something, anything, head first gains that experience, which is a decided advantage over someone with only information.
Information is likened to the library. There's greater wealth in your local college or town library than anywhere else in the world, it's free, and yet, most towns annual income average is 50k. Free knowledge. Powerful information. Yet little worth. Why is that?
Experiences. Going through the experience grants wisdom and knowledge.
The experience is the value, not the thing gained or lost.
Henry Ford was once asked, if he lost everything, how long would it take to get it all back?
Mind you, this was over $1,000,000,000.
He said less than 5 years.
Experience created the value and he could now short-cut that through knowledge.
The DOING of the thing is more important than the THING. Many want to short-cut the experience part. To do so, learn from the masters. Read from the masters, but don't give into well-wishers who pretend to offer get rick quick schemes. It's the experiences of the experienced that make it valuable. Hence the power of the new book everybody is in a tizzy over, The Game.
-------------------------------
Those who get results, get paid.
End of story. Ball players are bought for their stats and expected production. Employees are bought for their expected average output or productivity. Rising above that level grants you the right to more income/money.
The EXPERIENCES make you or break you. Without experience, we are immature, and that's what separates maturity and immaturity. Wisdom is gained through doing and knowledge obtained by GOING through the act of doing it.
Sure, we can reduce relationships to paper, to demands, to supposedly technical efficiency on PUA boards, but does life operate in that manner???
The experiences make the men. The experiences break the boys.
Each experience will be different, and each time you'll gain knowledge and understanding.
-----------------------------
How this all came about was a conscious realization that my value in places I've succeeded came because I never hestitate to blaze a new trail or step forward to accept responsibility. Just because some path hasn't been tread, does not make it dangerous or given to failure. You may embark on the very journey that turns your life around, or toward the highest dreams imaginable.
Normally we do things, without knowing what it is that we do. And at times, knowing this or realizing it would make the difference. When you gain the experience, people come to you, they give to you, you're looked upon as a pillar of a family, or society.
Early knights were scarred, but if they made it to old age, that was a sure sign they were successful because they lived while others died.
Life is no different, only these scars are emotional, and some tend to fix them on their person. They're only meant to serve as a night light directing you not to bump into walls and down which path to go.
To me, it's worse to fret over something and 'wonder' than it is to do it and fail.
------------------------------
Delighting in the battle scars we get is akin to being kids proud to show off our stiches. There are guys here who have posted on how 'they love being turned down' and they see how many rejections they can get. Whether you get rejected or not is not the goal...the goal is to acquire the experience of doing the chit chat, so you can gain clam understanding of the dynamics of a pickup or a conversation, depending on your frame.
The experience of life is what gains you an edge. CEO's are paid based on experience. There are lots of businessman in business with more years than most, but it's WHAT KIND OF YEARS they've had that matter. What did they do? What can they do?
Jim Rohn once pointed out how Michael Eisner got $50 million dollars in a year. He did so because he made the company several billion dollars. He brought results, BIG results (though he's not there anymore). That's leverage. He brought results to others' and was paid for his results, in what seems to be a small amount, say 5%??
-----------------------------
The more experiences you accumulate of varied kinds, the more valuable and successful you become. Yes, this is philosophical and based on actions you must apply, those which I can tell you, BUT, applying it to any area alleviates the stress of outcome planning, and replaces it with the thought of experience doing.
A-Unit