Essay: A Life-changing Piece of Advice

An exceptional piece of advice I acquired on my digital travels recently was from an Author called josh Kaufman who wrote a book called ‘The Personal MBA’ which is basically a business master’s in a book. During this interview on the ‘Modern Wisdom’ podcast, he shared a piece of advice that he uses to guide himself to success:

"Make them tell you 'No'" 

 Seems pretty simple but one problem of being a clever clog is that you can mistake your assumptions for reality and miss doors that might be open instead of closed. “Make them tell you ‘no'' forces you to test your hypotheses in the real world and see what happens...

This piece of advice could apply to a job, starting a business, asking a girl out. Whatever the challenge, the basic principle is that rather than assuming you know what’s going to happen to save yourself the hassle, go over and make the extra effort to hear a 'no.' Only when you hear a ‘no’, do you know! (Savage)

This is an efficient strategy to maximize opportunities becaus…