Don’t ask others how they succeeded, it’s useless!

The secret of success is undoubtedly what every successful person wants to know, and it is also the key element that everyone who wants to be successful needs to understand and master. This article will share with you the secrets of success, help you understand the necessary conditions for success, and provide you with methods and techniques to practice and apply these secrets.

Don't ask how a person became successful, what his secret to success is, or what he did right.

Because often the answers you get to the questions you ask are mostly useless.

1. Other people’s success is meaningless

We often hear the saying that we should learn from successful people.

So people tend to ask others what they did right and how they did it on the road to success.

According to common sense, it seems to be correct.

As long as you know how others do it, you can copy it yourself.

But in practice, you find that many so-called successful methods do not work.

The most fundamental reason is that other people’s success is often difficult to replicate.

2. Success really depends on the right time and place

We all know that you can make money by doing e-commerce, selling houses, being a top influencer, and opening a supermarket, but why are many people not successful now?

For example, Tencent has at least hundreds of billions of funds, but it is very difficult for it to create a Douyin or Kuaishou.

Alibaba and JD.com are also very rich, but whether it is Jingxi or Taote, it is difficult for them to compete with Pinduoduo.

The environment for creating Douyin IP and live streaming sales one or three years ago is completely different from now.

If you ask someone how they solved a problem five years ago, it may often be of little use today.

In addition, many people ignore the resources of others.

When you ask others how to successfully build a group of stores, you should ask yourself whether you have 500 or 1,000 stores and whether you can afford the deposit for such stores.

For example, if you ask others how to sell products in private domains, do you have 100 mobile phones, 50,000 WeChat groups, and 200,000 WeChat friends?

You cannot ignore these conditions. For example, with the current TikTok accounts, why are institutions more likely to succeed?

In addition to having mature methodologies, they also have funds, teams, equipment, and the ability to make paid placements, as well as a matrix of influencers to help promote each other.

3. Asking is not the way to get the truth

This does not mean that other people's successful methods are completely useless. After all, many companies, whether they are opening branches, creating matrix accounts, making super popular products, or making matrix products, have their own set of methodologies, which have indeed been proven to be feasible.

But your approach of asking won't work, because many people like to get things for free and like others to answer their questions for free.

The successful experiences of others are gained through their own trial and error, countless days and nights, countless accounts and products being scrapped, and hundreds of millions of funds being invested.

And you think that simply by talking and asking, others will teach you everything they know. How is that possible?

If you really want to learn from others, you have to act like a disciple and ask for advice.

Recognize the value of others, directly join their paid communities or pay others for consultation.

If you ask a question for free, the answer you get will naturally be at the price of free.

The question you ask costs $1, and the answer you get is also worth $1.

The question you ask for $1,000 may get an answer worth $3,000 or $5,000.

4. Ask others more about why they failed.

Instead of asking sensitive questions like how others succeeded, it’s better to ask how they failed.

In other words, what did others do wrong in the process of success.

Others will be more willing to share these for free, but for a novice, what you need to learn is how to avoid pitfalls.

What others tell you not to do is often more valuable than what others tell you to do.

Because what you shouldn't do can be avoided immediately, but when you are told what is right, you may not necessarily understand and possess it immediately.

For example, if you ask the village chief what he should pay attention to when writing a public account, I will answer:

1. What you should do: You should write something valuable, you should persist in doing it for more than half a year, and you should monetize it from the very beginning. You see, these three suggestions on what you should do are useless to you because you can't do them at the beginning.

2. Don’t: Don’t write about the party, government, military, education, or gossip. Don’t use too many professional terms. Don’t write negative content about big names. Don’t write at length. Don’t use other people’s avatars or other pictures at will, as you will be complained about.

Compared with the former suggestion, the latter can be implemented immediately.

Author: Village Chief, WeChat public account: Shili Village