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.

Agreed the successful people have the knowledge and also the "Activity-knowledge" called real experience. This definitely makes starting for them easier

> 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.

Given the time limit, they did not have much time to learn a "new" method.

> 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.

I know I'd stick with hot cakes! If that was my specialty

> 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?

Hmmm, Interesting point. It would tell me that I need to sharpen my skills and develop a strength.

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

Boy if I could SELL hot cakes, then I could SELL almost anything! :->

> 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.

Maybe they should put in their rules, that you cannot do what you have 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.

I personally find that when "Successful" people tell their stories of how their fortune were made, they tend to oversimplify a lot of the important details that were critical to their success

> Richard.

Thanks for the feed back Richard!