An accountant explains why he stopped researching everything and started making mistakes instead. He got customer hang-ups testing a phone script, but each one taught him how to fix it. His book Do More Now, Get Better Later argues that high volume of mistakes is how you actually get better.
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I'm an accountant, pretty analytical by nature. I overthink things. I'm a guy who wants to research stuff by default, but I don't think that way anymore. Now I'm just like, let me go make a mess of it and just, I will literally figure it out later. Hence the name of the book is Do More Now, Get Better Later. Like I'mma just like, let's go and I will make a mother effing mess of it and I'll just fix it as we go. What I learned that I made the mistakes of, and I don't teach a lot of different things in a broad audience until they're there's a lot of activity because I've learned you need a lot of mistakes to make tweaks, you know what I mean? Like, people always want— I need help with my phone script, I need help with my in-home, I need help overcoming objections. I had someone complain to me, they got like a— everybody this week hung up on me. I'm like, define everybody. They're like, I mean, I had at least 8 of them. I was like, like, all week?