By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Events have reminded me of how easy it is for me and I suspect you to trust others opinions more than your own. I give two examples.
Welcome to The Big Game Hunter. I’m the head coach for JobSearch.Community. A couple of episodes came together concurrently that prompted me to want to do this video and let me just start with the apolitical one and then go into the political one. The apolitical one is I remember years there was an acquisition that was made where a firm acquired a young startup for an unheard of amount of money for a firm that was that young.
The acquirer, in this case, Google, acquired YouTube, a company that had no earnings, no revenue, no potential, so everyone said. How are they going to monetize them? There’s the headlines. They’re spending almost two billion dollars for this firm.
What are they, crazy? There’s no potential here. Video is new. Like, what are they gonna do? Now, I want to give you a perspective and say that last year, Google’s revenues that I saw posted were 10 billion dollars.
Now, I want to do a quick review here just to make sure I quote this correctly. Google does 10 billion dollars in annual revenue. It is increasing by 40 percent per year.
10 billion in revenue, 40 percent increase per year. Do you think Google’s made their money back and a lot more? How did we wind up trusting these geniuses who didn’t see the potential and just accepting what they said at face value? In the modern times, we’re dealing with a politically complicated situation where Russian involvement in US elections translates into undue influence on Trump and, from there, that there was collusion and on and on and on and yesterday, as I record this, former FBI director Comey came out and said a couple of very simple things including, yes, there was Russian involvement in the election. No, as of now, there’s no evidence to suggest that the president was involved with it even though there’s been lots of scary stuff put out there and I don’t present him to know the answer.
I just have to trust the FBI director in his positions and say that there’s a lot of you out there who are believing everything that you’re being told. I know it’s very easy for me to be seduced into this kind of stuff and I want to remind you and remind myself as well that just because people have an opinion doesn’t make it right. Just because they say it forcefully doesn’t make them right.
Take a moment and take a step back. Think for yourself and, if you don’t know, just pause and wait for the circumstances to clear rather than getting so vehement in one position or another. I want to be clear this isn’t about politics.
It’s about far more than that. So, sit back, relax, wait for the dust to clear. You don’t have to have all the right answers.
If anything, admitting that you need help will be a huge boost for you. You’ll learn a lot more. You can ask your own questions and come to your own conclusions without, shall we say, abdicating your power and knowledge to other people.
Jeff Altman here. Visit JobSearch.Community. I’d love to coach you. Have a great day!
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