The More You Talk, The More You FUEL It!!!

The More You Talk, The More You FUEL It!!!

In any life, any environment, RUMORS become louder and louder especially WHEN you ignore it.  BUT WHO wants to add fuel to a brewing fire anyway?  In the NBA world WHERE the trade deadline looms again, the rumors just get louder and louder.  To douse cold water on it, Pat Riley, Miami Heat's top honco, spoke and no mean terms, stated that they DON'T have even an iota of a plan to trade Jimmy Butler, the colorful 6-time all-start.  SO, why did Pat Riley stomp his foot down.  He said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH of those rumors WHICH were no less distractions to the players and coaches.  Indeed, very true, The More You Talk, The More You FUEL It!!!

The past years, with various organizations, in an attempt to fill a hole that would otherwise sit there and gobble up time and money, sometimes in a burst of inspiration, I'd take charge and propose an idea, perhaps NOT a perfect one at that point in time BUT more as a starting point.  I'll toss around my proposal, discussing with others WHO eventually I would need their buy-in, if NOT consensus.  And brace yourself, once you propose something, the more you vociferously push for it, the worse my idea seemed to be because the more I heard a NO after a NO, all reasons WHY my proposal was NOT good enough.  YES, obstacles will ALWAYS stand in the way, dude💥💥💥

WHAT happened next?  As my proposal got battered black and blue, left and right, I had to tweak and re-tweak it until I had to retable a new idea if only to keep moving, lest it dies right then and there.  With each 'NO', my proposal would get watered down UNTIL it became that unrecognizable and at the end it was hardly a shadow of what I originally proposed.  Think of it though, coming up with ideas is FUN.  As we have NO shortage of problems, everywhere we look at there are holes to be filled.  BUT c'mon, if you have an idea to be tossed in good faith, even a mediocre one OR even an outlandish one, share that idea, toss it out for consideration and let it 'talked out'  until it gets more forceful enough✅✅✅

WHY are ideas deserving to be 'talked about'?  Because as the discourse progresses, the crappy parts [if any], gets stripped away and in the end, it gets shinier and shinier as it gains momentum.  And before you know it, it becomes real.  In practical terms, if you want to make progress, be innovative, beat the competition and keep your customers happy, you want your idea to be a 'FUELER' rather than a DILUTER'.  A common competitive scenario is getting locked-in in a 'crowded' room or at least within a tightly-knit group WHERE you will go through the wringer for your idea to ever prosper and come into fruition.  So, HOW come many are enjoying that winning streak of having things their way, their proposals being embraced over and over again?  The most popular catalyst for those success stories are those WHO are so obsessively driven to have the last say, the last laugh in the room, NOT settling until they gain the upper hand😊😊😊

Our takeaway:  Living in today's world is very competitive BUT if there's a thing that's going in our favor, it's the fact that the field has been more levelled than anytime in the past WHEN the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would lord it over.  Even at the sprawling Silicon Valley, they have a penchant for zeroing-in on the newbies, the startups, the never-heard ones.  BTW, the top 10,000 companies at Silicon Valley have employees numbering no more than 50.  It's because they want to gobble up the 'cream of the crop'.  And when ideas are floated, rather than dilute it, even for the supposed crazy and crappy ones, it's given a fair chance to be validated because THE MORE YOU TALK, THE MORE YOU FUEL up things dude❗❗❗