The Mindset Programmer

FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN TRAINING. “We’re telling you what to do; why don’t you just do it?” Investigation #3. This well-meaning admonishment often has the opposite effect: it gets ignored. While it is true that the experts have walked their path to success, it may not necessarily work for us in the exact same way. We struggle to imitate their path and get derailed by self-doubt. So how can we extract the value in learning about someone else’s success? How can we make it work for us?

FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN TRAINING. “We’re telling you what to do; why don’t you just do it?” Investigation #1. Here we have a statement that, in theory, sounds easy enough to do. Yet, we don’t do what they tell us to do. Why is that? Why wouldn’t we trust the people who have walked the path we are embarking on? Who have achieved the results we are after? There is something about being told what to do that doesn’t always work for us. Do you think we are being defiant, or is it something else?