Zach Selch compares military training to sales training, arguing that mastering small, specific skills like opening statements and discovery questions builds toward larger success, just as rifle maintenance and shooting techniques combine in military practice.
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This is something I should learn from, right? So this constant learning is also in the military. In the military, half your time you're going to courses. They're teaching you things, and they want you. They're not teaching you these big philosophy courses. They're teaching you how to better clean your rifle, how to shoot at a very specific range, how to use something very specific, a very specific tool. And you're picking up 100 of these things, putting them together and achieving your mission. And that's what sales is all about, Right? You don't say, let me tell you about how to cold call, right? You're saying to somebody, let's talk about this part. What's your opening statement? What's the question you ask? I can spend eight hours talking to you about a discovery call. And that's just like in the military.