Being different is the same, or is it?

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. – C.S. Lewis

We are all different

While this would seem to be an obvious (and hence, redundant) observation, there are at least some circumstances where the opposite is assumed to be true. To be fair, I don’t think that anyone consciously believes that we are all the same. However, if you treat two people the same way, and expect identical reactions from both of them, then they are (to all intents and purposes) assumed to be the same.

To illustrate with a real-world example, let’s say that I join an average Network Marketing company. After paying my membership fees, I am handed my start-kit and am told to go forth and spread the word. I casually ask about training, and I am told that Mr Big (Look… Here is a picture of him in the latest company newsletter!), has built a fortune by just phoning people randomly from the phone-book. If he can do it, then anyone who wants to be successful can do the same.

The underlying assumption is that I am the same as Mr Big. If I cannot do what he did, then I am obviously not as keen to be successful (as he was). So, I try to do what Mr Big did, and in all probability I never become as successful as he is. This has nothing to do with my desire to succeed. The facts are that we are all different, and no-one in the company has yet managed to replicate Mr Big’s effort.

Does this mean that the majority of people joining the network marketing company are doomed to a mediocre (at best) level of success? It depends… technically, anyone in the company has the potential to be successful, but first the training needs to be improved. Moreover, the training, along with the systems that can be implemented, must be duplicable. A randomized phone-book approach is not a duplicable system, and pointing to another person and saying: “He did it, so anyone can”, is not training.

If I try to be like him, who will be like me? – Yiddish proverb

A small percentage of people will be comfortable phoning people from a phone-book, and convincing them they need to join whatever network marketing company is being represented. The problem is that only a small percentage of the people they are phoning will be happy to be forcibly convinced to join the network marketing company. So, this approach will take a long time and will not suit anyone who takes a response of “No, thank you!” personally.

For a network marketing company, the training, and the systems for driving each one of us down the path to success, has to be designed so that it all works just as well for Mr Big, as it does for me (or anyone else). Theoretically, we could work out how everyone is different, and maybe group people into a few high-level categories grouped by “similar” traits. Obviously no-one is going to fit perfectly into any one category, but each person has some dominant traits we can concentrate on for categorization purposes.

We could then tailor the network marketing training to include training on how to recognize and communicate to people in the different categories. Then we could provide this system of training to all distributors in the company, ensuring a much higher level of success than previously experienced.

What if something like this existed already? And what if it was available to anyone who wanted to use it (regardless of which network marketing company they were associated with)? It does, and it is.

My good friend and mentor, Michael Dlouhy, spent a lot of years researching and building the perfect system for becoming successful in any MLM (network marketing) company. The system works, it is duplicable, and the training it provides is absolutely priceless. If you are interested in more information, either contact me, or click here.

Sometimes being different is still the same. But, it doesn’t have to be the same – being different can be amazing and it can change your life.