Believe it or not, you are Smarter than Someone!

Posted by Amir Lehrer on December 11, 2008

All the way through our schooling we are measuring how smart we are.  How well we do on each test, in each subject and most of all compared to the rest of the class and sometimes even the rest of the State, Country or World.  After we are done with schooling, many of us are still on the roller coaster ride of wondering how smart we are and how we compare to others.  Some people are afraid to speak up because they fear looking stupid.  Some people don’t take chances for fear that they will fail.  I am telling you today that you have nothing to worry about.

Just the fact that you are reading this post shows, that you have enough initiative to do something with yourself and that you are smarter than a large portion of people out there.  I am not saying that reading my blog specifically proves anything,   it is reading anything and learning something outside the scope of your “required reading” that means something. 

I have been thinking about this a lot lately as I start my own Social Media business, Flid Media .  I am confident in my abilities and I know that I am more than qualified to be doing what I am doing.  At the same time, Social Media is very new and is changing every day.  Every single day I read blogs and articles about new elements of social media that I have never heard of before.  Some are just being launched and introduced but others are new perspectives. 

There will always be people out there that are better than you or know more than you but that should not deter you from reaching for your dreams.  You don’t have to be the best or the smartest out there.  You just have to be better and smarter than the people you are doing business with.  When I say “better and smarter” I don’t mean in actual intelligence, I mean it in the scope of what you are doing.  The most brilliant minds will need help in a field that they have no experience in.   You may never be the Michael Jordan out there but the NBA is filled with players who don’t hold a candle to him.  Besides, have you seen Michael play baseball?

As I mentioned in the past two posts, go out, learn something and become smarter than the next person.  Then you too can become a consultant.

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Thanks, You’re a Life Saver!

Posted by Amir Lehrer on December 10, 2008

Yesterday, www.flidmedia.com, my new company’s websites was on the fritz.  I messed something up in the backend and I wasn’t even able to get back into the backend to fix it.  I knew what I did wrong and I had a good idea of how to fix it but I just wasn’t able to get into the area that would let me make the changes. 

The first thing I did was search through faqs and forums online looking for similar problems that may help me out.  When I didn’t find anything, I posted my own question.  This took place late last night and when I woke up this morning there was a solution posted to my issue.  The solution worked and my site was up and running again.  I sent the person who sent me the solution a short note which read “thank you, you’re a life saver”.

In life there are many times when someone else’s expertise can help you out in a few second or minutes when without them, it would take you hours or days if there is even a chance that you can do it yourself.  When being helped, you too may exclaim “thank you, you’re a life saver”.

It could be something as small as someone giving you better directions to your destination when you are late or having a booster cable when your car battery dies to something at the other extreme like when a doctor saves your life or the life of someone you love.

Just think.  Something so easy for one person either because of his profession, his interests, his familiarity with his local area or pure chance can save you so much time, money and effort or even actually save your life.  In my last post I mentioned that there is so much opportunity out there because of how fast the internet is growing, so anyone can become an expert on something. 

Today I am telling you once again, go out, learn something that most people don’t know (which is easy) and hopefully one day someone will tell you “thank you, you’re a life saver”!

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