Keep Learning - 33/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons
November 2014, I listened to The Hobbit audio book, because I wanted to read the book again before seeing the third instalment of The Hobbit trilogy. Doing this got me into reading and I now seek to read 1 book a week, or the equivalent of.Over the years I've come to realise how important knowledge is, not only concerning the convergence rate, not just to put more particles of knowledge inside your brain, but simply to get ahead.When you can understand and talk about economics, finance or psychology and how they affect our world, or talk about that topic in great lengths with other people. Then people start to recognize you.People look up to those they see as knowledgeable. People respect those whom are smart.Furthermore, by understanding topics such as those mentioned above, you can understand how they affect the world.Knowing what not to do in life is just as valuable as knowing what to do.You can begin to understand how inflation affects prices, which is the expansion of the money supply. You can begin to understand the Kantian fairness, and how you can make every decision that the customer makes about being 'fair'. Or you can understand why private enterprise and voluntary transactions are better than government force.Simply put: You don't know what you don't know, and the best way to know is to go out and discover it.When you want to know something, then delve deep into learning it. I spent around two weeks learning about Inbound Marketing in November 2016. 100s of blogs, dozens of eBooks and dozens of videos.Let's say you wanted to learn about marketing: search every possible search phrase suggestion in Google, Amazon and YouTube. Learning everything.Add 100s of videos to your YouTube watch later, find books on Amazon, read as many blogs as you can. Also, check out a website called Coursera, where you can learn free stuff at a university level, or very inexpensive. Remember, to take some of it with a pinch of salt.Question of the day: what new tool are you learning about to help you?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.
Published on June 29, 2017 00:31
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