Everyone gets got
– Dante Nero
Comedian & Radio Talk Show Host
The above quote is 100% truth.
The context is about people who get hurt, screwed over, dumped, heart broken, etc in relationships.
(i.e. everyone gets “played”)
But, it applies to business, too.
Every single successful entrepreneur I know gets got.
It could be from being swindled in an investment.
Or buying an inferior product from a fly-by-night business, leaving you no way to get your coinage back.
Or being screwed over by a client.
Or being taken by a service provider.
It could be… anything.
But, one thing is fo’ sho’:
We ALL get got.
All of us.
Question is, what do you do about it?
Well, you can cry about it.
A waste of time in my humble (but accurate) opinion.
Or, you can learn from the experience and either profit from the knowledge or at least use it to protect your gluteus assimus in the future.
I tell people who get got (including to myself when it happens):
“wisdom doesn’t come cheap”
In fact, it always comes with a price.
Often a very expensive price.
(In terms of money, pain, anxiety, failure, etc).
And that’s why when you “get got” (whether it’s in business, as a consumer, in interpersonal or romantic relationships, whatever it is) the FIRST thing you should do is be grateful for it.
After all, you just learned a valuable lesson, babycakes.
And you can now apply it to your life.
(And use it to help others, too.)
Anyway.
Do with this info what ye will.
I’ve made lots of mistakes.
Too many to count.
And, I’ve learned from them all.
A lot of that knowledge I pour into “Email Players”.
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Ben Settle
