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We spend so much effort trying to improve our income, skills, and ability to forecast the future—all good stuff worthy of our attention. But on the other side there’s an almost complete ignorance of expectations, especially managing them with as much effort as we put into changing our circumstances.
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
People lower the price to close a sale. But even if you close this one sale, the customer will question every price you offer from that point going forward…and whoever they tell. You trade trust for a buck. Not worth it.
Note: You can offer something different for less. You just can’t offer the same thing for less. If he had offered different insurance for less, rather than the same insurance for less, he probably would’ve kept her trust and closed the sale.
$100M Money Models: How to Make Money
Alex Hormozi
But do other people actually look at you so much? Are they really watching you around the clock and lying in wait for the perfect moment to attack? It seems rather unlikely. A young friend of mine, when he was a teenager, used to spend a lot of time in front of the mirror arranging his hair. And once, when he was doing that, his grandmother said, “You’re the only one who’s worried how you look.” He says that it got a bit easier for him to deal with life after that.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
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