Thank you for this entry. It reminded me alot of the kind of training that Robert Kiyosaki went through as an entrepreneur. An interviewer stated the odds of being a succesful business owner. We all know about the statistics that nine out of ten businesses fail within the first five years, maybe even earlier than that.
His reply was simply that he was determined to fail nine times out of ten before he founds the business that eventually makes it. And so he made it in the third attempt and got all his money back from the first two bankruptcys. Statistically, I'd guess that the remaining seven failures of those ten are separate individuals that fail once and decide to never try that again. That's the kind of mentality that the majority of people has, as Steve pointed out. A higher entry in different fields simply shifts that 99 % lower to 90 % or further. |