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3:46 p.m.
One of the things I didn’t know about business that I know NOW is the sheer amount of trial and error you process to get anywhere worth going.
The school system teaches you this is “failure.” And they give you silly letters they train you to think actually MEAN something to reinforce this illusion.
Then, when you collect enough of a certain kind of letter, they “allow” you (if they pick you!) to become even MORE allergic to making a wrong move. They call this indoctrination “higher education.”
I call it, the fine art of mind slave making.
And they even figured out a way to get millions of people to go into debt to fund their own brainwashing. They even got the masses to accept this scheme as the “smart” thing to do if you don’t want to work at a fast food restaurant for the rest of your life.
Quite a crafty little system.
As it turns out, this is one of the most destructive lies perpetuated on humanity.
Trial and error is not failure, it is the very road to mastery.
And for goodness’ sake, the world needs more mastery. It’s just waiting for more people to stand up and run contrary to the “failure is bad” program.
Are you willing to make mistakes out loud? Few people are. Most want to hide the mistakes. Most want to forget the trials. Most want to disown all of the dead ends that were explored, the inspired ideas that went nowhere, all of the “wasted” effort that never turned into anything.
We’re trained to want to smooth out our rough edges so that others don’t see them.
“What would people think?”
I know what people think when you make mistakes out loud.
Let me tell you:
They will look at you, someone they respect, and they will feel better about themselves. They will see that YOU are human just like they are. They will see what you’ve done, the mistakes you’ve made, the fact that you go on, and they will think, “maybe I can do that too!”
And their life will be improved because of that new insight about themselves.
This is just a short list of what happens when you don’t hide the truth.
It empowers and inspires other people to do something.
They skip that little lesson at school because THAT’S a lesson that might accidentally empower everyone regardless of age, race, sex or creed.
And that would be a problem. If people truly realized just how much alike they are, it would all be over for the “powers that be.”
P.S. I made my own trial and error adjustment today with the Advisory Program and the Business Intelligence Journal newsletter. It occurred to me, these would go well together. I write about what I’m doing in the newsletter, I show it to people, I answer their questions in the Advisory Program.
And so I “fixed” things. The Advisory Program and the Business Intelligence Report are now one thing. You get both for $99/mo. There will be a limit to how many people I can help, but I don’t yet know what that limit is 🙂