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Successful people win every time

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Successful people win every time.

Successful people make their own luck. Both sides on their coins are heads and their dice always roll seven. They don’t take chances. Successful people control results, they don’t let results control them. This is why many successful people have an elevated view of the world. An elevated perspective helps you distance yourself from situations. It enables you to plan and forecast the future. Jeff Bezos is a master of looking into the future. He builds for the future. For years Amazon had been operating at a negative deficit but he kept on expanding and convincing his investors to look at the long-term prospects of the company. Today Amazon is one of the most valuable companies in the world, one of the most profitable and sells absolutely everything. Jeff, achieved this with Amazon because he delayed gratification and elevated his perspective. His investments and acquisitions have been outstanding. He purchased Alexa, Twitch and was one of the early investors of Google – investing $2 Million when it was just a start-up and today Google is the pulse of the internet if not the world. Let’s not forget Blue Origin, a space company whose ambition is to colonize Mars.

Jeff Bezos is a visionary, no wonder he is the world’s richest man. He is a man who knows what he wants. He is a man of great innovation and ambition and he is deliberate about it. When he sees potential, he sinks his teeth into it. He is a long-term thinker. Having an elevated perspective helps achieve his goals and create space for innovation.

This is a trait of all successful individuals, Focus and long-term thinking. It has worked for Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk. Steve Jobs also had the reality distortion field that enabled Apple to be the most valuable company in the world. Successful people are deliberate about what they want to see. They apply a lot of focus and resources to win. Successful people don’t wait for chance or speculate on the future, they have successful systems that enable them to win. They are relentless and ruthless. They never quit, it’s either they win or they win. Successful people create what they want to see with the aid of time. Successful people always get what they want.

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Conform or not to conform

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Conform or not to conform

Conforming has its advantages for example if you are starting an online community, you have to understand the ecosystem and adapt to make it your own. You have to understand what works and what doesn’t to create a framework and structure for your newly formed community. When you have a structure and framework you can slowly add what’s different about you. Being different from the get go is not wise because you can get shunned and ignored, that’s not good for creating a self-sustaining brand. Different doesn’t necessarily mean good. You have to conform to a certain point because to conform entails to be emphatic and empathy makes you relateble and likeable. To conform is to understand and to be compassionate because you can mirror people’s mannerisms, tastes and conducts.

A perfect example of conforming to be different is with the Apple 2. When it was released it was just like a lot of computers in a lot of ways. It could run on any operating system, it could be modified to the users tastes and had multiple USB ports. Steve Jobs later changed everything about the Apple 2 with later products to reflect what Apple stood for, to be different, to have a rebellious spirit and to have taste. Apple needed to stand out from the rest of the market and set the benchmark. He closed off everything so Apple could run on its own operating system and reduced the multiple USB ports to just two ports for the modem and printer. The decision to close off Apple was the difference maker and is the reason Apple is the most valuable company in the world. Apple of course is vertically integrated today owning and controlling everything from operating systems to distribution. But they had to conform first. Not conforming makes you different and can provide an edge to inspire innovation that can make you successful, however it’s not always guaranteed. You need to be flexible enough to know how to fit in and then go out.

Warren Buffet is a perfect example of this. He lives far away from Wall Street to avoid the noise and clutter. He doesn’t follow the news. He is sheltered in Omaha. However when it suits him and his business interests, he can be attuned in and make decisions everyone else can’t see because of his different perspective. As opposed to news and loud untrustworthy bulletins, he has trusted sources from within Wall Street, that gives him the advantage. You conform to understand and then make your own way.

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What do people want?

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What do people want?

Steve Jobs once said “the customer doesn’t know what he wants until you show it to him”. His point was that you must create a need and simultaneously fill it. The sentiment that no one really knows anything has been around for millennia. Nassim Taleb explores thoroughly this on his book “The black swan”, which I highly recommend. The book explores unpredictability, once off events and biases. The internet for example is a black swan event because no one could have predicted it prior to the 20th century. The Covid pandemic is another black swan event, nothing like this has ever happened before, it literally stopped life! We didn’t know what to do or how to react.
If you had asked people in Henry Fords time what they wanted, they would have replied a faster horse. How about a horse that won’t die if you don’t feed it or leave it out in the cold? This is the genius of the automobile.
To know what people want is to know what you want. I want a great product or service that will serve my needs. I want great customer service. I want ease of use and I want convenience. I want service, care and respect. If you can fill those needs, I am a customer. A big innovation might make your offering popular but what I listed are the fundamentals. If you can do the fundamentals really well, you can attract a lot of customers. This doesn’t require market research. Of course, I am governed by biaes and they dictate my life but human nature still rules. If you can understand people’s motivations, that is, people are narcissists and think the world revolves around them, you will do well in business. Cater to the narcissist in the best way possible, this is a psychological urge everyone yearns for – “Just make me feel special, that’s all I want. Make me feel good!”, that is what people want.

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