Stop talking, start doing.
The older I get the more I find that people, at least those I've bounced into over time, tend to "talk" a lot. They don't do so much though. I have people in my life, not by choice..more so by force, that make grand commentary and sweeping allegations but don't tend to have too much action. These are generally people who make brash, loud comments puffed up with what they believe are factual elements. But more times than not, these individuals find themselves without many compatriots. That result is discovered usually after long winded thought processes that seem to pull from facts based in "something they heard" but rarely can be reproduced without several counter arguments. And thus, the problems begin.
I know I'm not alone in this experience and I'm positive some of these types of individuals would be just as accusatory towards me. That said, it doesn't shed the fact that comments based on education instead of experience only take you so far. It seems that as a mass we've lost the understanding that everything isn't a sound byte and everything can't be summed up to grand theory. Some things are more complicated.
I'm thinking back to all the comments and accusations thrown out during the epic "BP oil spill". You heard people saying "fine, bankrupt, arrest" BP. For what? For an accident, epic as it was, it was an accident which was drummed up by lack of the government doing its job and the attitude of the company to cut corners. So if BP did go bankrupt and was destroyed, who pays for the problems created by their spill? Who resolves the issue? These are questions "sayers not doers" can't answer. They usually throw in a tangent at this point to move the discussion. This is a topic in which actual business experience or extensive study is required. Extensive not being what one reads on the Internet.
BP is simply a highlight point of an area in which sayers not doers fail. However, they will never see it that way. Instead it is simply "your" close minded view that can't understand their conclusion based on minimal evidence and maximum theory. I asked this before, but I'll ask it again, what happened with all the BP hype? Where did it all go?
I know I'm not alone in this experience and I'm positive some of these types of individuals would be just as accusatory towards me. That said, it doesn't shed the fact that comments based on education instead of experience only take you so far. It seems that as a mass we've lost the understanding that everything isn't a sound byte and everything can't be summed up to grand theory. Some things are more complicated.
I'm thinking back to all the comments and accusations thrown out during the epic "BP oil spill". You heard people saying "fine, bankrupt, arrest" BP. For what? For an accident, epic as it was, it was an accident which was drummed up by lack of the government doing its job and the attitude of the company to cut corners. So if BP did go bankrupt and was destroyed, who pays for the problems created by their spill? Who resolves the issue? These are questions "sayers not doers" can't answer. They usually throw in a tangent at this point to move the discussion. This is a topic in which actual business experience or extensive study is required. Extensive not being what one reads on the Internet.
BP is simply a highlight point of an area in which sayers not doers fail. However, they will never see it that way. Instead it is simply "your" close minded view that can't understand their conclusion based on minimal evidence and maximum theory. I asked this before, but I'll ask it again, what happened with all the BP hype? Where did it all go?
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