Posts Tagged ‘practice’

If you want to get ahead, then you need to do things before everyone else. Once something is seen as profitable, cool, or unique, then it is already too late. The idea is that if you think of something first then you have a competative advantage. If you are informed, everyone else is probably doing the same thing. The ability to anticipate gives you the edge, but how do you learn to anticipate. Lot’s of practice and experience. As Eddie lampert wrote in his article on Fortune, “you have to keep practicing and preparing.” This is applicable to business, marketing, investing and savings, sports, and many other things in life. It takes thinking outside the box, which is hard to do since most of us are trained to just follow the rules. You can find the full article here. I originally found the article on Brand autopsy.