Sep 24 2008
Coming out of the dark.
Why do most people fail online?
They have a fear of failure, they are embarassed by their thoughts my stuff ain’t good enough etc ….. yep and it stops them taking the actions that they know they need to take to be successful. We all miss something once in a while in a spell checker. What do you do become embarassed that you just published the stupidest looking post in the history of the blogosphere or get over yourself and accept your human like the other billions on the planet many of whom probably made the exact same error you did.
What you going to do hide for ever?
My wife said it the other day what’s the point of it if it’s not you. So I’ve set myself some goals get over myself and get my picture on this site by the end of the week. I’ve been online for most of the past 4 years and I haven’t actually done that yet. Good idea? No absolutely not there is nothing to bond with and that is what we need online as well as offline something to associate with a face makes things more real, trustworthy and more human.
I mean I could make myself an avatar but that would just be cheating.
Welcome back!
Why do most people fail online..?
False expectations.
They find that they’re not successful in their first 30 days (as promised by one of the gazillions of websites out there flogging Internet Marketing systems) that they think it (and everything else online) is a scam.
If more people started with the right expectations more people would succeed.
Cheers,
Martin.
I would take a different angle on this and comment on some ideas from an excellent book I am currently reading by Paul Ormerod “Why Things Fail”, a scholarly look at the normal phenomenon of why even robust successful, organizations, entities, and species fail on such a regular basis.
Our natural optimism and willingness to suspend disbelief allows us to focus on how an idea can succeed, whereas looking at the results of a category of enterprises would lead us to conclude that failure is normal and expected.
Rather than concluding that action is futile, this may actually help us get over fear of failure, since it is by far the most likely outcome. Free of that fear we can safely venture with our ego intact since failure seems to be an integral part of nature and not a personal shortcoming.