Michael Ross's Challenge

Dr, Rice mentioned a television program that covered this very subject and the participates in question used their previous contacts in some way to make money, I can’t remember if that was allowed, but these exercises in ‘making it again’ seem somewhat pointless.

These kind of tests are always aimed at people who already have had success, they know what it’s like.

The exercise seems to be provided so that people who have had no success can learn from people who’ve had it.

But the people who are offered the challenge have an unfair advantage over someone who has never had success other that holding down a job, they already have the knowledge even though they may have gone broke, so starting again is not as difficult as someone who’s never experienced success on that level.

Also, the people in the test will more often than not, revert back to how they did it in the first place, they just do what they’ve felt the most comfortable with.

If someone made a million dollars selling hot cakes and didn’t know how to do anything else and was given the challenge, do you think they’d say that they’d become a Doctor? or a Dentist? No they’d go sell hot cakes.

You’d go with what you know and I don’t think that helps people because it just shows that others stick to their strengths. What if you have no particular strengths and you’ve had no success? How does that help you?

I suppose it shows you that you can make money selling hot cakes;>)

These challenges should be called, "What do you think is the best way to make money" because everyone will just redo what they’ve done before.

I think there can be more gained from successful people’s stories of how they did it in the first place rather than what they’d do if they had to start again.

Richard.