The principle of success
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The above site is one where you'll find very, very good arguments written by very, very good copywriters to get you to buy something. The material is supposed to help you become an Internet millionaire.
Are they telling the truth? Or are they lying like so many people who want to help you spend your hard-earned money on their "secret" money-making schemes?
It depends. To be more precise, everything depends on you and where you are in life right now. One thing to be said, though, is that a teacher is most effective when he knows exactly where the student is, and only offers information and knowledge that is appropriate for that level.
A karate teacher, for instance, would not show an advanced brown-belt technique to a student who is not even at the yellow belt.
Yet, most wealth authors and speakers, such as those on the site above, are trying to teach black-belt techniques to people who are beginners!
It doesn't mean the black-belt techniques are wrong; they are just inappropriate for the beginning student.
The site contains nearly 19,000 words. The best strategy is to look for a sentence containing ONE idea that you can implement and practice over and over. I recommend the same strategy for reading books: rather than read a whole book to try to understand the intellectual framework of an author, it is much more profitable to try to spot 3 to 5 ideas, apply them, and see how they work.
Photo-reading techniques or any kind of speedreading technique are not useful in this case, because it's not about how many words you "cover" but the quality of ideas you discern.
The best success secret is to focus on your success secret.
In other words, look at your own life. Where have you been successful? Who were you successful with? In what environment? How did you think or feel when you were successful? What clothes were you wearing? What techniques did you use?
Once you've identified the above, just focus on them more and use them in slightly different ways in order to EXPAND your success arena.
For example, you might have been successful as a parent volunteering at school to help a group of teenagers. The next step, then, would be to organize a workshop for teenagers (and charge the parents, of course!).
This is what I call a "naturally expansive flowing of success" or NEFOS.
NEFOS doesn't require you to learn new techniques that are incompatible with who you are. NEFOS only requires that you look at what you've done which felt natural, easy, graceful and that enabled you to succeed.
Whatever is promoted by "Internet millionaires" or wealth gurus are just techniques or, in some cases, technologies. Those are tactics of success, not principles of success.
The ultimate principle of success is to "follow your bliss." That is, do what you are naturally and joyfully inclined to do. You cannot go wrong with that principle.
Once you master that principle, then all the tactics and techniques and tools and templates will appear to you (and there are thousands of them!).
However, if you fail to master that principle of success, that is, you ignore who you are and what you are naturally and joyfully inclined to do, then you will be forced to use techniques that others invent, and you will be slave to them forever.
This is what Aristotle meant when he said that one must learn principles first, so that one can create and shape tactics and tools accordingly; without mastering principles, a person will, according to Aristotle, be a slave to tactics and techniques.
The above site is one where you'll find very, very good arguments written by very, very good copywriters to get you to buy something. The material is supposed to help you become an Internet millionaire.
Are they telling the truth? Or are they lying like so many people who want to help you spend your hard-earned money on their "secret" money-making schemes?
It depends. To be more precise, everything depends on you and where you are in life right now. One thing to be said, though, is that a teacher is most effective when he knows exactly where the student is, and only offers information and knowledge that is appropriate for that level.
A karate teacher, for instance, would not show an advanced brown-belt technique to a student who is not even at the yellow belt.
Yet, most wealth authors and speakers, such as those on the site above, are trying to teach black-belt techniques to people who are beginners!
It doesn't mean the black-belt techniques are wrong; they are just inappropriate for the beginning student.
The site contains nearly 19,000 words. The best strategy is to look for a sentence containing ONE idea that you can implement and practice over and over. I recommend the same strategy for reading books: rather than read a whole book to try to understand the intellectual framework of an author, it is much more profitable to try to spot 3 to 5 ideas, apply them, and see how they work.
Photo-reading techniques or any kind of speedreading technique are not useful in this case, because it's not about how many words you "cover" but the quality of ideas you discern.
The best success secret is to focus on your success secret.
In other words, look at your own life. Where have you been successful? Who were you successful with? In what environment? How did you think or feel when you were successful? What clothes were you wearing? What techniques did you use?
Once you've identified the above, just focus on them more and use them in slightly different ways in order to EXPAND your success arena.
For example, you might have been successful as a parent volunteering at school to help a group of teenagers. The next step, then, would be to organize a workshop for teenagers (and charge the parents, of course!).
This is what I call a "naturally expansive flowing of success" or NEFOS.
NEFOS doesn't require you to learn new techniques that are incompatible with who you are. NEFOS only requires that you look at what you've done which felt natural, easy, graceful and that enabled you to succeed.
Whatever is promoted by "Internet millionaires" or wealth gurus are just techniques or, in some cases, technologies. Those are tactics of success, not principles of success.
The ultimate principle of success is to "follow your bliss." That is, do what you are naturally and joyfully inclined to do. You cannot go wrong with that principle.
Once you master that principle, then all the tactics and techniques and tools and templates will appear to you (and there are thousands of them!).
However, if you fail to master that principle of success, that is, you ignore who you are and what you are naturally and joyfully inclined to do, then you will be forced to use techniques that others invent, and you will be slave to them forever.
This is what Aristotle meant when he said that one must learn principles first, so that one can create and shape tactics and tools accordingly; without mastering principles, a person will, according to Aristotle, be a slave to tactics and techniques.
posted by Super Peter at 4:52 PM
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