Its just like the first rule of bank loans. The best way to get a loan is not to need one.
Show success before asking for help
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#32Most definitely. But it isn't like people are out to get you. Once you've shown success, people think (rightly or not) that you can duplicate it again. And they want in on that. They want to invest their money there because it seems more assured. If you haven't shown any past success, then you're a risk. What makes you more likely to succeed than any random person? This is why I like to have a few nice, running web a…
It's generally less that people think that you'll be able to do what you did last time again, and more that people believe that you're the kind of person who delivers on their promises. If you want to get a promotion at work to best place to start might be doing something as simple as taking everyone's lunch orders and getting them right. The point isn't to show that you're really talented in one specific area, but r…
" If you want to get a promotion at work to best place to start might be doing something as simple as taking everyone's lunch orders and getting them right. "
Dang, that is good advice.
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#33 Show success before asking for help.Re: Show success before asking for help
#34With a fixed amount of money, people tend to invest less money to risky business. People without past success are more risky. They just follow the common sense.
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#35The lesson is good and true for us, IT guys. But the idea behind getting help is exactly that, to show success. If you can show success by yourself why you need then ? So even your trust grows up when you have a happy past, but the problem with new "good" guys is that they don´t have sufficient confidence to pursuit the success by the lack of a past success history. So maybe the big trick is to trust until the end that you can be a success by yourself and then get the world.