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He Thought I Stole His Framework..

Name: He Thought I Stole His Framework..
Uploaded: 2024-11-24T15:00:14+00:00
Duration: 1 min 7 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this informal monologue, the speaker recounts an encounter in Las Vegas where a sales professional accused him of stealing a "Closer Framework". The…

24 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this informal monologue, the speaker recounts an encounter in Las Vegas where a sales professional accused him of stealing a "Closer Framework". The accuser, after confronting the speaker in person and later via direct message, claimed prior ownership. The speaker refutes the claim by presenting an earlier video showing he had been teaching the same framework three years prior, establishing independent creation. He emphasizes that concepts aren’t owned; credit is irrelevant if the work is independently developed, and that superior execution will naturally attribute the idea to its best practitioner. The narrative explores themes of intellectual ownership, evidence-based defense, and attitudes toward sharing ideas in the sales community.

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So I'm walking around Vegas and a guy pulls up to me, looks like a sales guy. He's wearing the sales guy uniform, the haircut, the suit, the whole thing, right? And he's like, "Hey man, big fan of yours, but you know, I really took personally that you, you know, you took the Closer Framework from me." And I was like, "Okay." And I just like kind of kept walking 'cause I get stopped a lot. And I was like, "All right, whatever." I then get a DM from the guy saying, "Hey, you know, just FYI, like it would've been nice if you'd like give me credit. It was actually something that I really hated you for a long time for stealing from me, but I'm, you know, I've kind of come to terms with it." And I was like, "Bro, I didn't take shit from you." He was like, "Well, I've been teaching it since this date." And so me being the asshole that I am, I went and found the first video that I had in the Closer Framework, which guess what? I'm older than he is. And I had been teaching it to my sales guys 3 years prior to that. He ended up eating his words and being like, "Oh, my bad, I'm sorry." And I was like, "But dude, I don't care, teach your thing." And the thing is, is even if you had done it first and I had done it after you, but I did independently come up with it, Who cares? You don't own the concept, and if you were better at it than me, then people would know it as yours.