Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Stop Complaining, Start SHOWING How Things WORK! #shorts

3 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Tommy Dobczyk argues that simply telling people why an approach fails—repeating "it doesn't work for this reason"—leads to negative focus and encourages unproductive trial‑and‑error. He prefers to demonstrate how something works, allowing listeners to understand the underlying logic and adapt their thinking. Dobczyk cites his four years of self‑education and references ten failed opportunity‑zone development projects as concrete examples of what goes wrong when development is mishandled, using these failures to illustrate the importance of showing the correct process rather than merely criticizing.

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Because for me to stand up here and say that doesn't work for this reason. It doesn't work for this reason. It doesn't work for this reason gives people the opportunity to sit there, well, well, well, why don't you try this? So one thing I don't like to do is tell people why it doesn't work because it's focused on the negative. I'd rather show people this is how it works and then let them bend their minds around why it has to work that way. Because for me to stand up here and say that doesn't work for this reason. It doesn't work for this reason. It doesn't work for this reason gives people the opportunity to sit there well, why don't you try this? Well, why don't you try this? I didn't spend four years educating myself to trial and error my way through this. So I can take you right now to 10 failed opportunity zone projects because they did the development wrong.