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Disruptors

‘Common Sense’ Business Advice That's BAD: MYTHS Busted [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Discover today the 'common advice' that is (usually) bad. Join Rob as he goes through thirty of the most frequent pieces of advice that you should not take. Rob discusses why it is not possible to eliminate your fears, why you should always have a plan B and why ‘going with your gut’ can mislead you into filtering out important information.   KEY TAKEAWAYS A common piece of bad advice is that you can ‘eliminate’ fear. It is not possible to have no fear, fear is a necessary emotion for survival and if you did not have it you would be dead. Stop being delusional about thinking you can eliminate fear and contextualise it instead. Feel the fear and do it anyway.   Another piece of bad advice that is common is people telling you not to have a plan B. If you didn’t have a plan B this year for your business, then you were most likely in danger. Whilst you should not spend all your time planning for the worst, it is smart to have a plan B, C, D etc. Whilst it is important to not lose focus on your plan A, you should still spend some time on your back up plans.   People often say that they should be continually setting goals. Whilst setting yourself goals is wise, be realistic that you are likely to face some challenges on the way. The opposite of goal setting is fear setting, what could go wrong? When you set goals, don’t be delusional that you will get all of the upside and none of the downside.   “Keep your opinions to yourself” is a common piece of bad advice. We all have equal rights to our opinions. As long as you are not calling these opinions facts, then you have just a right as anybody else. Just because somebody gives their opinion louder, doesn’t mean it is right. Whilst some opinions can just be ‘noise’ other opinions can be insightful.   Often people will tell you that you should ‘always go with your gut’. Humans are very good at reading each other. If there is something that feels fishy in a trusting or vulnerable setting, you should trust your instinct. However, human beings are very susceptible to cognitive bias, a lot of the time we cannot trust this bias or the ego that protects and defends us. Our intuition and gut can be very misleading and can filter important information.   BEST MOMENTS “You should give up on old beliefs that are out of date” “For being a disruptive and contrarian entrepreneur much of this advice is wrong.” “It is very common for big thinkers and excitable entrepreneurs to set big goals.” “It is always changing and evolving.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the disruptive entrepreneur podcast.

0:06.8

What does the word disruptive mean to you?

0:08.5

It means going beyond the ordinary, going beyond the status quo.

0:11.7

Not thinking in the conventional way, not just sort of following the herd.

0:15.6

Disruptive means taking things up, you know?

0:18.0

Disruptive entrepreneur is somebody who sees the problem and embraces the problem with a new way.

0:23.6

Shake up and awakening.

0:25.0

Quality will take care of itself and you'll go for being disruptive but also profitable.

0:29.2

When you use your reservoir of talent, when you love what you do then you disrupt mix it up change it up and

0:34.9

dominate and now your host eight times best-selling author and double world record

0:40.8

holder Rob Moore. Hi it it's Rob Moore here.

0:44.0

I reckon I've got 30 conventional wisdom or common sense myths.

0:51.0

So there are things we're taught that we're supposed to assume

0:56.3

a wise that have stood the test of time that I believe are either wrong, myths, the world has changed, or at least there's another

1:07.0

side to the equation which can really help you as a start and scale up entrepreneur in your

1:11.8

pursuit of success and happiness. This is

1:14.8

take two sorry but there's no way I'm doing 30 minutes plus with something stuck in

1:18.9

my tooth. They give up start again. You know they say never give up, yeah, if you got something stuck in your tooth and you're doing alive, give up, start again.

1:27.0

See, I've got about 30 of these, and I think we could make this quite fun.

1:31.0

So first things first is if you're watching on the live please put in the

1:36.6

comments anything you think that is regarded as true but actually maybe as counterintuitive.

1:45.0

I'll give you an example here.

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