Thread: Observation

I have an observation, that is not new, but I'd like to bring it up again in a kind of guessing style of thread, just for fun! See if you can see what it is.

Here are my clues.

I have seen it on here, on this very forum.

I know that MJ DeMarco has very openly mentioned it, in the book and on the forum recently.

It can be seen in lots of other places, in articles on and off the internet and in peoples history.

It is especially seen in peoples success stories and particuarly in the events that lead up to them.

Then the other night when I was watching Youtube there it was yet again brought up on a Shark Tank interview from last year with Kevin O'Leary and Robert Herjavec.

Can you see what I am talking about?

Don't worry it is nothing complicated, but I think it is quite cool.

EDIT : Clearly I made this way too vague so.

First big clue - It is in the numbers

Ok here is the answer to my not very clear observation.

What I wanted to reiterate or explain was something that I picked up from the Millionaire Fastlane book. I hope I have interpreted it right.

It is the simple occurance that pretty much everywhere, success raises its head after a string of failures. This is nothing new to everybody I know. But there might even be a number related to it that is what I found interesting.

Forgive me for sounding crazy!

This same number or pattern even applies in business ventures from venture capitilists. For example.

Kevin O'Leary says that out of 25 investments there are only 3 winners amoungst them. That could mean out of 8 investments only one is a winner meaning 7 failures.

In success stories on this forum. People tend to write about failure SEVERAL times before success.

When people create a successful website. It takes SEVERAL attempts to get it right.

SEVEN out of ten businesses tend to fail in the first five years according to various internet sources.

Several failures that lead to success!

I was sure that the other day I saw a post from MJ Demarco in which he said to somebody something about strikeing a home run after SEVEN failures!!

So, there is allot of sevens involved.

Perhaps 7 really is an average of success verses failures in the fastlane world.