{"id":15136,"date":"2023-05-11T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=15090"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:55:36","slug":"the-most-misunderstood-guy-in-the-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-most-misunderstood-guy-in-the-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"The most misunderstood guy in the biz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month on Twitter, a fellow named Alex Tsel observed about me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I don&#8217;t how and why but you might be one of the most misunderstood people in our space&#8230; Unless it&#8217;s on purpose ?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that\u2019s true (and that is for others to decide, not me), then it\u2019s not as if it ain\u2019t my own fault. I\u2019m a walking contradiction in a lot of ways. Which is why everything I say, do, teach, say should always be taken with a big, fat block of salt.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>written 9 novels, yet don&#8217;t read fiction<\/li>\n<li>penned 10k+ pages of books\/8k+ emails so far, yet still can&#8217;t spell to save my life<\/li>\n<li>hosted 237 podcasts, have done hundreds of hours of audio work, yet suck at pronunciation, and constantly butcher the language<\/li>\n<li>spoken at many events, masterminds, etc\u2026 yet I shun people<\/li>\n<li>sell a single video course for $2500, but absolutely loathe video, and will not rest until the internet to goes back to plain text<\/li>\n<li>have a coaching program, but have never hired a coach in my life in the business, marketing, copywriting, email, sales arena<\/li>\n<li>love being around my child, don\u2019t like being around anyone else\u2019s children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that\u2019s just a few contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>Which should give anyone hope that whatever they want to do, they can\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despise MLM, yet I enjoy teaching lessons I learned from people I respect in that industry<\/li>\n<li>Own a SaaS company, yet couldn&#8217;t write line of code if my life depended on it<\/li>\n<li>Hate seafood, yet live across street from ocean in fishing town<\/li>\n<li>Invested half a million in a mobile app platform based on audio\/video\/pdf content, but still prefer writing print books &amp; newsletters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>On and on and on it goes.<\/p>\n<p>One contradiction after another.<\/p>\n<p>And this &#8220;contradiction effect&#8221; is probably something that also happens (not on purpose, if it does, or you see it happening) throughout the content inside my Email Players newsletter in a lot of cases.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription info here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month on Twitter, a fellow named Alex Tsel observed about me: I don&#8217;t how and why but you might be one of the most misunderstood people in our space&#8230; Unless it&#8217;s on purpose ? If that\u2019s true (and that is for others to decide, not me), then it\u2019s not as if it ain\u2019t my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-inner-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}