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Sales Is Boring?

Name: Sales Is Boring?
Uploaded: 2024-08-06T01:30:20+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker argues that sales work can feel boring because it involves the same conversations repeatedly. He frames this boredom…

6 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker argues that sales work can feel boring because it involves the same conversations repeatedly. He frames this boredom as a skill to be mastered: learning to tolerate and even enjoy repetitive tasks. He advises focusing on the revenue‑generating activity, using the income and time it provides to pursue side projects or passions that may not be financially lucrative. He shares a personal anecdote about his father's advice to avoid blindly following passion and instead do work that is useful to others and that people are willing to pay for, then use the earnings to fund personal interests.

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Sales is really boring if you do it every day. It's the same conversation over and over and over again, right? If you get really good at it, it gets even more boring because you can do it in your sleep. Yeah. When I talk to our sales guys who've been doing it for a year, 2 years, 3 years, etc., and they're like, dude, I'm just kind of getting bored. What I tell them is learning how to not get bored is a skill. The ability to do the same thing and enjoy the art of the fact that there is repetition. Do more of the thing that you're making money with, and then if you like building, take the other time you have in your life and build stuff on the side if you want. The way you eat and the way you build don't necessarily need to be the same thing. My books don't make any financial sense for me. I just like writing. My dad always used to say this: don't follow your passions, because if you did, I'd be a bartender on a ski slope. Do something that's useful to other people and they want to pay you for it, and then you can take that time and take that money, and then you can spend the rest of your time doing whatever you want.