Mark J. Podolsky (The Land Geek) explains that you do not need special skills or vast real estate experience to succeed in the raw land business. Drawing on Jeff Colvin’s idea that experience alone is overrated, he identifies the core requirement as "deliberate practice" — intentionally practicing specific tasks (making offers, finding a niche, building buyer lists) to improve. The clip concludes with calls-to-action to visit thelandgeek.com and download resources (Passive Income Blueprint, the e-book "How to Avoid the Three Fatal Land Buying Mistakes") and to subscribe to his podcast.
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Hey, it's Mark Podolski, the land geek with the landgeek.com let's have another virtual cup of coffee together. So I was on a phone call the other day with my buddy, and he was asking me some questions about the investors toolkit. And he said, come on, Mark, does it take any kind of special skills or experience you need to have vast real estate experience or some kind of charisma, sales experience, marketing experience to really be successful in the land business? And I was like, jerry, absolutely not. In fact, what's interesting about that is I just read a book by Jeff Colvin that talks about experience is overrated. There is no correlation between IQ and success. If you really want to know the secret to getting better and extraordinary at what you do, it's two words, and that's it. And you can be successful at anything. You can become better at what you're doing right now. The two words are deliberate practice. Excuse me? Deliberate practice. That's all you have to do, is deliberately practice on what you're doing. In the land business. I teach you how to deliberately practice making better offers, finding your niche market, building your list of buyers so that you can literally send out an email and have deals come in. So deliberate practice is the key. And it doesn't matter what you do in life. I mean, we all spend hours and hours at work, at our job, but we're probably not getting any better at it because we're not deliberately practicing on what we're doing. And that's the key. So if you want more tips, tricks, techniques, how to make an incredible income actively or passively buying and selling raw land, go to www.thelandgeek.com, download the passive income blueprint. Excuse me, I got a thing in my throat. Get the E book, how to avoid the three Fatal Land Buying Mistakes. Oh, and get the always informative and entertaining podcast delivered each week to your email inbox. This is Mark Podolski, the lane geek with a scratchy throat. Thanks for having a virtual cup of coffee with me. I'll see you next time.
