ARE YOU LEARNING OR UNLEARNING - HOW TO BECOME THE SMARTEST SALES REP
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
4.8 β’ 1.2K Ratings
ποΈ 19 May 2023
β±οΈ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In sales as in life, there are so many things that happen that we don't understand. |
| 0:07.2 | We don't see it happen, we don't understand why it happened, why it didn't happen, and |
| 0:14.0 | our minimal brain fills in the reason why it happened or didn't happen. |
| 0:23.2 | Some call this luck, good or bad, some come up with excuses, reasons, blame, you ever heard |
| 0:33.3 | a blame, people blame, everybody but what it is. |
| 0:38.0 | And this is just part of life, and we all face it, but how we think about it can really |
| 0:45.0 | affect how good we become at sales. |
| 0:48.8 | Let me explain. |
| 0:50.9 | If you think there's this thing out there that you don't have control over that's working |
| 0:55.9 | either for or against you, you tend to think differently as opposed to leaving just a |
| 1:05.8 | little gap, a little smidge, maybe 1%, maybe even 5% of, well, maybe I don't know, and |
| 1:16.0 | maybe I will never know, but maybe I can be curious about it. |
| 1:22.4 | Which is more empowering, attributing it to something like fate or luck, superstition, |
| 1:31.0 | whatever it is. |
| 1:33.2 | It really doesn't matter what you call it, but you're assigning it so that you can put |
| 1:38.6 | it into this category in your head and become comfortable. |
| 1:43.8 | But the best salespeople learn to live with that discomfort, that mystery, it keeps their |
| 1:51.2 | brain working, and why do you want your brain working? |
| 1:56.2 | Because if you give it the wrong answer and it becomes comfortable, is that learning |
| 2:02.1 | or unlearning, unlearning is believing in a falsehood and going through the assumption |
| 2:11.1 | that it's true through your life. |
| 2:15.2 | If it works for you, great, but what if it's not working for you? |
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