Don't Take My Word For It!

byTheCatherine

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Updated 3 years ago

There are two types of people here within the wealthy affiliate community. There are the "true skeptics", and there are the "pseudo-skeptics".

Dr. Gary Schwartz is the director of the lavatory for advances in consciousness and health at the University of Arizona and he distinguishes between these two by saying

"True skeptics not only know that they don't know something for sure, but they are genuinely open to changing their mind and growing in the light of new evidence. In a deep sense they are humble and open-minded.

On the other hand, the "pseudo-skeptics" are typically disbelievers. I.e. they are firmly entrenched in believing "no" about certain things. Although they may claim that they are open to new information they typically react with strongly unfriendly if not hostile criticisms when their belief and assumptions are challenged by new ideas and evidence".

We are all skeptical and so we should be. All my life I have refused to be told about anything. I have to work it out for myself. Much to the frustration of my father who used to tell me the fastest way of learning is to learn from others. What he meant by that was learn from the mistakes of others. While I always got that on an intellectual level, I could never quite transfer that into actual behavior.

I don't like to take other people's words for things. I like to investigate things and work out what works for me, determine what makes sense in my world and also what rings truthfully and authentically. If it doesn't sit with my values then it's not going to work for me.

Don't take the throwaway comments about Internet marketing seriously investigate for yourself. My research about duplicate content has shown me that it does rank. You can't have in my experience duplicate content on one site you can have it on multiple sites. That's something I don't necessarily want to preach to you or anyone else.

Another complete marketing myth is "people only buy when they have seen something the seven times. That myth has been going around for 20 years. I can't remember who said it many years later the man who quoted that stated that it was on a radio show, and he got caught out for an answer, so he made that up! I don't know how many people have relied on that piece of information over the years. What I do know is if I don't buy something at the first opportunity, life is too short to go back and repeat the exercise.

Always test things out for yourself. It is your niche, your business and your future and you cannot take what other people say about it as gospel. Try it out for yourself and see what happens. You may very well be surprised.

Have you heard the story about the blind man and the elephant?

The blind man and the elephant

Basically the story of the blind men and the elephant means that truth has a hundred and 44 sides! What you perceive is essentially just a facet or to put it in another way a tiny sliver of truth in any given situation. Other people's perspective rather than something to be argued against is a really important to my understanding of things.

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As you can see, everyone looking at that elephant were blind and they only saw or felt the aspect of the elephant which was near to them. Very often when you're given advice here it is by people who can only see a portion of the elephant. Which is why you need to work out what the elephant looks like in your world and in your niche and in your business