Ryan Deiss argues that dismissing ideas because you dislike how they're executed or who said them stunts your learning. Extract what works from any source, understand the mechanism behind it, then apply it ethically yourself.
Oftentimes the mistake that we will make is we will discount good ideas either because of the way they were executed or because of the source of the good ideas. I believe if you only learn from people you like, your learning is going to be limited. And there is a lot that we can learn from people we don't like. We don't like their style, or in some cases, they're just flat out larcenous and evil. Now, we don't want to execute the way that they did it, because again, we don't like them or they're just bad. So what we can do, though, is go, this is working. It's unfortunate that it works, but why is it working? What can we learn from it that we can execute in a better way?
