Thank you

He knew he wanted the girl, he went after the girl, he didn’t let himself get sidetracked and he got the girl.

Or some people will say, the girl saw the light…lol!

However, you must also understand my friend, that I must see my vision through to the end, and as such, whenever I get criticism to the contrary I must find a way to either use it to advance my vision or dispose of it. I chose to use it as a catalyst to move forward, and in fact tomorrow’s post is motivated by what we have discussed today.

You will notice that I did not attack you or go on a rant or default to the old, “let them hate and we’ll watch the money pile up,” thing because I don’t think it would be useful to the both of us.

I appreciate the fact that you took the time to stop by as a friend and give me some advice. Thank you

This is my last comment on this post. I will check back next year. Matter of fact, I will bookmark this blog.

JIM

I think what gives me relief about this whole process, among many things, is the fact that, every blogger I know and study, even the ginormous ones, heck anyone who is in the public consciousness has a camp of people who want to tear them limb from limb. Now, I may have critics, but I don’t have haters like say, Timothy Ferriss who is way more materially successful than I.

To be honest with you, I don’t know what it is. There are certain type of people who always seem to react in exactly the same way to what I write.

Over the course of doing this I have actually been told the same things, just from different people, over and over and over again.

I like to protect my ego, and remain positive by not over analysing any negativity or criticism but instead trying to take that energy and sublimate it to a higher, more positive, mutually benefitial purpose.

This comment seems a little abstract to me. Let me know if it is, and I will rephrase it.

I make a HUUUGGGEEE digression here, so bear with me.

I think as a general rule to criticism from now on, I will always have the same answer.

I don’t say this with malice, sarcasm or any malevolent intent on my part:

If you don’t like what I do or what the blog does then either:
a) Criticize me AND THEN give me positive feedback and/or
b) Take action and create a much better alternative to what I am doing.

As I was saying to Caroline, as I evolve over the course of this blogging thing, I am losing more and more and more respect for intellectual discourse and debate ESPECIALLY when it does not result in action because I really feel those are moments lost that you could have used to put your grandiose ideas to action and who knows where that may have led.

I was listening to an interview with a guy by the name of Robert Cialdini and he was talking about how he did not like the fact that academia was actually not taking their discussions and research and findings and putting them into actionable, useful information for the public.

Instead, to use blunt language, they were participating in intellectual self-service&pleasure where they would make themselves feel intelligent in their peer review journals and the halls of their academies.

When I wrote the article on the need to take action, I wrote it because I know for a fact that majority of us immigrants are better educated than most of human history combined.

We know more facts, figures, historical facts, have more archetypes and exemplars stored in our memories than we know what to do with.

I think as a general rule, we should NEVER read another book until we take action and test ideas from the previous book to see how they gel in the real world.

To bring it back to this blog, we should NEVER criticize using words but instead should do so using actions. Intellectual discourse, debate and argument will end as soon as the debate is over, but action directed by a powerful intent (in this case to do better than our opponent) will probably result in a much longer lasting result not only in the short term but perhaps for a very long time or who knows, maybe in perpetuity.

Well now that I have typed that, I know what tomorrow’s post is going to be about