Apologies for not posting this yesterday but there was a server problem at Blog Carnival. Anyway here are this weeks posts to help you be positive about the future.

edithyeung presents I Have Confidence posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act….

What it seems you are trying to say is the more you know, the proportion of what you do know versus what you don’t know grows smaller. Which makes an illiterate, uneducated person a very smart one, because the proportion is very big, ’cause he knows everything he thinks there is to know.

That’s exactly the point. And who thinks the uneducated person a very smart one? This article? You? Me? Cause I don’t. It’s all in your perception and your interpretation.

By the way, the update you’ve posted on 06/29/2007 is a direct contradiction of the quote in question. You are saying to “Learn as much as you can as fast as you can because if you don’t, you will never catch up to the things you need to learn”, while the quote discourages you from learning at all. Why would I learn anything at all if it makes me grow slower? Hmm…

This is not a personal attack but a mere criticism. Your problem is you see things from a VERY negative perspective. You are just too hung up on the word “SLOWER” and you INSIST on interpreting the word LITERALLY from the point of slower vs faster that faster is better than slower.

If I read a quote like the one I posted on 06/29/2007, I personally feel challenged to learn more and better myself, but if you CHOOSE to feel discouraged, that is your choice.

I can’t change your mind about how you interpret the quote or the word. I have personally asked 5 people to review my article after the comments were made and surprise surprise, all 5 totally got my point.

As much as I want to engage in this debate, I think I will end this right here. When we meet in person, you are welcome to engage me in this again. If you haven’t watched ‘The Secret’, I would highly recommend you to watch it.

I will go back to writing articles. I already missed one yesterday.

You should have named the article as ‘Inspirational Quotes by Network Marketing gurus that apply to Network Marketing as well as to everything else in life’.

And just for the sake of the argument, give me and Emmi a solid example when ‘the more you know, the slower you grow.’

I think both I and Emmi S have understood your message quite well. I just don’t get your assumption that ‘you just can’t learn fast enough to catch up.’ Catch up with the things that you discover you don’t know? Well, the growth is not measured by realizing how much you don’t know. Not a single person knows everything, but some realize that they possess only a tiny grain of knowledge and understanding, while others are completely ignorant about it. Growth, in terms of learning (as it seems what you boil it down to), is measured by how much you do know. How could you grow slower if you know more? As an example: it is well documented that learning fifth language takes less time and effort than to learn fourth or third language.

There is only one, just one that I can think of, example when this quote is valid, besides NM. It’s called learning curve. The more you know, the flatter the learning curve. But be careful not to draw any conclusion at this time, as a flat learning curve in one subject opens up a very steep learning curve in the next subject. And so on…, which translates into the more you know, the more of very steep learning curves you have. Just because you realize how much you don’t know, in NO way does it slow your learning or growing.

What it seems you are trying to say is the more you know, the proportion of what you do know versus what you don’t know grows smaller. Which makes an illiterate, uneducated person a very smart one, because the proportion is very big, ’cause he knows everything he thinks there is to know.

By the way, the update you’ve posted on 06/29/2007 is a direct contradiction of the quote in question. You are saying to “Learn as much as you can as fast as you can because if you don’t, you will never catch up to the things you need to learn”, while the quote discourages you from learning at all. Why would I learn anything at all if it makes me grow slower? Hmm…

I’ll stick with my believe that the quote is only applicable in the context of Network Marketing. And Joey, try to analyze it in this perspective first. I may be right, I may be wrong about HOW it is applied in NM, but you are choosing not to look at it from this point of view at all. For sake of good friendly conversation (which might be informative to others), give me a good analytical counter point.

And when you said the more you know the more reasons you can find against taking action; that was NOT the message I was sending. If that’s the message you receive, then there’s a miscommunication somewhere.

And Mike, the quote doesn’t apply only to Network Marketing, the quote applies to everything in life. If it helps, the second part of the quote should not have been taken literally (thanks Craig) … but try to analyze the meaning behind it.

I couldn’t have agreed more with what you both wrote about the fact that we need to keep learning; because that’s EXACTLY the message I was sending.

Reading both of your responses, I have no doubt in my mind that you have misunderstood my message.

I think that your article defends ignorance which, I do not recall in any literature in the world, is portrayed as a virtue. Maybe the defenders of anarchies publicize that…

I think that people are always pleased to here you opinion if you tone it with your own limits. If you expose your thoughts about something in a categorical way and close your mind to learning, they will not be interested in communicating with you anymore.

Everything you do, hear, read, is an occasion to learn something new. Human beings have that gift that not a single other species on Earth has: self-consciousness and criticism. So use it. Use it at your best. No one will ever blame you for that.

I really think that the saying from Don and Nancy Failla (“the more you know, the slower you grow”) is applying to business in general. I take it as, the more you know the more reasons you can find against taking action, which is again human nature. So stop wondering for a second, and jump the fence. Go ahead and start doing what you want to do and it might work for you. I really don’t think that they meant to be ignorant and only then you can succeed in Network Marketing…

Also, if I quote you: “that’s the bottom line: don’t question anything, blindly believe in whatever you are told and only maybe then you’ll achieve the goal, which is conveniently provided as well”. That, my friend is the street definition of dictatorship. So I really hope that you were joking…