Everybody
has opinions. But the champions in life carefully choose who they will
listen to. After all, the reason a lot of people never get ahead is they
keep on paying attention to the opinions of the ignorant.
Your
brother, for example, may be a wonderful man, a good husband and father, and a
great gardener. But that narrows the range of his valid opinions to
marriage, parenting, and gardening. Not business growth, team building, or
leadership development.
You see,
people are quick to dispense advice on any subject, regardless of their
qualifications to do so. It makes them feel important. They rarely
give any thought to their qualifications. They just spout out their
opinions. That's why champions must carefully choose who they listen
to.
As an
author and professional speaker, I help my clients create strategies that will
make them more positive and productive. But then those same clients are
assaulted by an ignorant coworker who says, "That will never work.”
Unfortunately,
none of those opinion givers has any expertise in personal and professional
development. None of them has spent the 30 years of time and research on
the topic as I have. That’s why I tell my audiences that people have a
constitutional right to their ignorant opinions, but you have an
entrepreneurial responsibility to ignore them.
- Alan Zimmerman
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