When is it a problem, and when is it an opportunity?
This is something that everyone asks at some point in their lives. It's amazing how problems can be turned into a multi-million (billion?) dollar industry. If you don't believe me, check out the number of self help books, number of advisory bodies, consulting bodies, auditing firms and assessments. All these bodies share a common trait: They exist to help turn problems into opportunity.
For these people, problems and opportunities are opposite sides of the coin. My problem, your opportunity, or, more often than not, your problem, my opportunity. What this translates to is that we live in a parasitic environment as someone's detriment is someone else's existence.
Why must it be so? Can we detach from ourselves and look at the other side of the coin? Can we not look at our own problems and benefit from it? Then, instead of benefiting from someone else's misfortune, we benefit from our own. It'll bring a multi million dollar industry to a halt, no doubt; it'll also put people like me out of business; but in any case the world will be a better place because of it.
What do you think?
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Good Nite
14 years ago
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But then again, we can always look at it as a win-win situation. Consultants & clients, self-help authors and readers all benefit from each other.
I guess the experiences we learned from our own problems benefit us in may ways. And if you write a book about it, you'll gain in monetary terms as well!
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