The point of my earlier post was that people can benefit by going to school on the Open Forum. Sure, we can hand them all the answers in a paragraph or ten, but that does less good than the applied discovery process of reading a year or more of posts, taking notes, writing down questions, etc.
OK Phil, here is where differing opinions come of a forum come into action, I don't view it as a school, far from it. A forum is an information source and one that has emotion added in. Look around, there are more opinions than factual examples, I posted what I made, where is yours? (No need to answer that, it is a point) Going back a year to see those opinions sometimes is mind numbing, confusing and that is why we see a lot of questions being consistently asked. Forums are great places to learn from, but sometimes with messages that 'you too can be a success like me' I keep hearing for the past few years cheapen the real purpose.
I am wondering about your point of using the discovery process to learn. I mean, and maybe I am redefining it to fit what I see as a proper thought but part of the discovery process is about self examination, learning where you are, where you want to go, right? once you set your goals, then you learn about how to achieve them, right?
This leads me to something I have asked about and you refused to answer; if "This business is not hard to learn.", why would someone have to spend a lot of time studying it to be a success?
Would it be a long learning curve, like another thing, Luck is actually needed to be a success?
I know you discount the Luck factor, but in reality it is about being in the right place at the right time, right?
The opposite side of the coin was your statement "The failures failed because they did not learn the business.", which I can't help but point out that these are opposing statements you made and it would be rather nice to hear (read) a clarification about them so we really get what they mean. I only assume that due to the silence, the failures didn't want to learn an easy business, they were lazy.
So I still wonder what are you trying to say here with these two statements, is the business easy to learn or are people too lazy to learn it when they fail?
No. Not entirely. Yes, everyone makes mistakes. And yes, wise people learn from their mistakes. But mistakes are not a good thing. They are a bad thing. That's why they are called mistakes. Mistakes are not something to be maximized, they are something to be minimized. Some people make fewer mistakes than others. Newbies who make fewer mistakes are better off than those who make more.
But see Phil, here is the point, mistakes are a good thing if the person who makes them can recognize them or others help them to recognize them and correct them, learning from them or gaining experience. Mistakes, like it or not are part of human nature our human makeup. How you handle the mistake sets everyone apart, one can repeat them over and over and still make money but others can make one mistake and lose everything. Again let me summarize, learning from those mistakes is only part of the equation, recognizing the mistake and then acting on it is some of the other part of it.
Be careful about falling into a thinking mistake here. Success in expediting does not come from making or avoiding mistakes. It comes from achieving your goals.
Well yep the goals part is what I have been saying all along but it seems many do twist it. The path of success is always traveled with mistakes. Goals are set by the person, success is defined by the person and that person, each individual, can have thousands of mistakes and still claim to be a success. It has to do with attitude, determination and fortitude.
You can avoid mistakes in expediting altogether, and thereby earn zero-error bragging rights, by staying out of the business. Or you can make hundreds more mistakes than the average expediter, learn from every one of them, and be one of the smartest people that has ever failed in this business.
Well Phil, sorry but I wonder how many failed business have you had? I know you haven’t started at the bottom like many of us, you didn’t work your way up the ladder so I can expect you to say this.
I am still wondering what publications, people and spreadsheet you are talking about. The publication is what I really would like to hear about, didn’t know anyone had a expediting for dummies book out there.
