Comments on: Honesty as a Strategy http://www.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave http://www.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-12478 Dave Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:36:22 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-12478 Love this post. I think there's such a pressure to live up to your ideal image that it creates a false persona. You know its fake, but you do it to help live with your lack a accomplishments. Maybe this is why accomplished people are sometimes so humble. Love this post. I think there’s such a pressure to live up to your ideal image that it creates a false persona. You know its fake, but you do it to help live with your lack a accomplishments. Maybe this is why accomplished people are sometimes so humble.

]]> By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-8905 Ryan Holiday Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:26:45 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-8905 Say again? Say again?

]]> By: kojak http://www.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-8904 kojak Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:17:18 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-8904 So when do you look to write a book ;) So when do you look to write a book ;)

]]> By: Chris Johnson http://www.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-8903 Chris Johnson Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:33:59 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/honesty-as-a-strategy/#comment-8903 Realtor Math. When I was an agent--we would hear talk of other people. I have "14" listings, they'd say, or I did 6.9 million last month. Then you'd look at the MLS stats, and query the database. 4 listings, 1.2 million. And it was so disgustingly pervasive. Then one dude...I thought was a tool, because he wasn't a glad handler...didn't toot his own horn, was always there late. Dude never talked, and to be honest, wasn't as verbally smart as me. But he figured out the game. I looked up his numbers one day, and learned for myself he was making seven figures. Silently. ... Realtor Math.

When I was an agent–we would hear talk of other people. I have “14″ listings, they’d say, or I did 6.9 million last month.

Then you’d look at the MLS stats, and query the database. 4 listings, 1.2 million.

And it was so disgustingly pervasive. Then one dude…I thought was a tool, because he wasn’t a glad handler…didn’t toot his own horn, was always there late.

Dude never talked, and to be honest, wasn’t as verbally smart as me.

But he figured out the game. I looked up his numbers one day, and learned for myself he was making seven figures. Silently.

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