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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Genius? Nah...A risk taker



Steve Jobs is definitely one of the most known personalities nowadays.

He's driven, he's creative, he's a showman, some say he's genius.

My take on that? Well, I think he's just someone who really wanted to change the world and hit with his face on the wall several times, to have that success.

I don't believe in genius or talent or whatever you want to call it.
I do believe in effort, learning from the mistakes you do and...above all...taking the risk to.

Many like him had success because they had the balls to do what other didn't have the courage to.
Anybody could have done what he or other so called geniuses, but they were the ones to do it because nobody else had what it take to make that extra step.

Einstein was called crazy too many times, he even drop school at some point and he didn't have that much of good grades - and we all know what he ended up doing.

Galileu...well, at that time religion was all over and who dared go against
it was simply killed. He had the courage to put his life on the life for that.

I could be here all day long with other example, but I think you got the picture.

There's no such thing as a born talent..there's the work you do, the objectives you have and the million dollar question:

Do I have the courage to risk several things and sacrifice myself to achieve them?

I leave you with this interesting video done by Bloomberg on Steve Jobs and I think you see my point:

Life is like a coin: always has two sides!

Kind of interesting, isn't it?

In heard this expression a couple day ago and makes perfect sense.

In every situation we face, we can always see it in a different perspective and that can make the difference between success and failure, happiness and sadness.

It all comes down to the way you face things. How many times were you with a problem at your business and wondering why it didn't work the way you wanted to?
Well have you ever thought that maybe that "side of the coin" isn't the correct one?

It's good to hear other people's thoughts, brainstorm, be critic and provoke discussion.
Through this I'm 101% sure you'll get a more solid solution...or the solution to the problem you were wondering about.

As you say: "Two heads think better than one".

Monday, October 11, 2010

What and If?

Two interesting words that most of us use very often.
Questions like "What are you doing?", "What's that?" or "If you do it your wrong", are a common fact in our lives.

However, if put together they can really piss you off.
"What if?" is the worst question you could ever put.
"What if I did that?", "What if I talked to her?", "What if I had taken some risk in that business?".

These are some example of stuff you'll ask yourself again and again.
But the thing is: why didn't we tried it at that time?

Taking some risk is something most people can't do, most of us don't have the balls to take some risk.

But a simple question should solve it: is it worse to try and fail, or to not try and spend the rest of your life wondering how it could have been if you took that risk?

I leave you a quote that really makes the point:

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can a smile win?

Well here's an interesting question.
Aside from the obvious satisfactin and happiness, a smile can win a lot.

A smile can be the difference between finishing a business negotiation with sucess of not. It's the difference between giving a tip to a waiter and not giving it. It's the difference when conforting someone.

I could go on and on, but it's quite real.
How many of us went through these situations.
As you know, non-verbal communication is almost 85% of all human communication.

Smiling at someone makes them feel your confident, your happy and that they can trust in you. It has the power to transmit happiness towards another person.

With this, easily a hard negotiation can be a nice chat.

Have you ever thought about this and actually used it?

A smile can make life easier all around, be it in business or family/friends.

Try it and let me know if you see a difference.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

First Things First

Well, the little voice in my head is starting to roll over the blog.

So the thing is: why should I care? Why should you care about your own little voice?

The fact is that they are able to sum-up in very simple conclusions your life and teach you great lessons to the future.
So the thing is really hearing it, because, as I see it, most people don't because they keep doing the same mistakes over and over. Me included, but since I started to pay a bit more attention to details and really go over what went wrong you can see it wispering the conclusion...and it's a matter of taking that into consideration.

That's the purpose of this blog, to share with everybody (whoever is listening/reading) my thoughts and conclusions.