42 Knock Out

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Thousands of people over the years have asked me, “Where did you go to school?” I simply tell them, “The School of Hard Knocks.” I also tell them I love the school I attended because the campus has no boundaries. This school is available to anyone who wants to attend, is willing to actively participate, and is serious about learning lessons for living. In the School of Hard Knocks, I have learned some incredible attitudes and principles for success that have served me well for a lifetime. It is a part of my great fortune that I want to share with you!

Life Lesson #1: Seize the day!

Develop a seize-the-day attitude by staying alert, being a good listener, and having your radar out for every opportunity to meet people and to expand your horizons. Seize the day by seeing the potential in other people and encouraging them to use it, having a loving heart and a forgiving spirit, and helping as many people as you can in as many ways as you can in as many places as you can for as long as you can.

Life Lesson #2: Take personal responsibility

Responsibility applies to every area, attitude, and action of your life. When you accept personal responsibility for your life, the whole world looks different. When you know it is up to you, you prepare better, study more, learn more, and have greater resolve. When you accept personal responsibility for your life, you also learn to use more of your God-given talents.

Life Lesson #3: Think outside the box

Set your imagination free – be creative, inventive, and resourceful, and think beyond the obvious. Remember that real intelligence is the creative use of knowledge — not merely the accumulation of facts. Using your mind to think outside the box will help you become more imaginative, inventive, and creative than your counterparts and will be both personally satisfying and personally profitable.

Life Lesson #4: Never, never, never give up!

“One more time!” That is how many times you must get up after someone knocks you down, criticizes, or attacks you. Refuse to stay down, and enter the game of life even more enthusiastically than before. Never give mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. This approach will provide you with an invincible attitude of “I can, and I will!” Remember that 90% of all failure comes from quitting too soon, so hanging on with persistence will give you the best possible chance of reaching your goals. Hanging on until success comes is the essence of determination and persistence.

There are many, many more valuable lessons to be learned through the School of Hard Knocks, so never drop out! When you start out as a serious student in this school, you will be mostly raw material. But as you work your way through the courses, every knock will enhance your understanding and help you grow a little wiser, and every knock will open a door to a greater possibility.

One of my college roommates had a brother who was a graduate business student and often visited our rooms. Since one of my possible career choices was to work in business, I asked this business student many questions about his studies and career choices. Everything he said expanded my knowledge and made me more interested in a business career.

This information meant a lot to me because I grew up in a small city where there were only two large employers, the Santa Fe Railway and the U.S. Air Force. Neither organization provided opportunities to learn about executive success in a large corporation.

When I began graduate business studies, I was pretty smug, thinking that I knew just what needed to be done: Get a prestigious degree and wait for highly attractive employers to bid for my services.

Talking with the other business students made me realize that I had a lot to learn about career success. I didn’t even understand what executives did in different industries.

My complacent eyes were opened wide one day when a management consultant from the famous McKinsey firm made a presentation. At the end of the discussion, I asked one of the other students who got to do what this presenter did for a living. My classmate quickly responded, “Strategy consultants.” I asked, “What’s a strategy consultant?” He responded that these were people who worked for McKinsey or The Boston Consulting Group. I remembered those answers and later applied to both firms, not quite knowing what to expect.

Even with all of this knowledge, I was totally unclear about how you went from being a management consultant to having a successful business career working for a large corporation. I guessed that someday a client might hire you. And that’s what did happen to me after I became a strategy consultant.

The key lesson from my experience is that you can have a wonderful education at a university and still lack important knowledge about the most fundamental elements of developing your business career.

Students typically prefer to get information about potential careers from fellow students and professors, but research shows that students and professors provide incomplete information. It’s better to also speak with people who have been developing a career for a decade or so to find out what lessons they learned in the school of hard knocks.

I was recently reminded of this source of information to make more effective business career plans when I corresponded with Dr. Robert Hartinger, a banking executive in Germany who is a Ph.D. graduate of Rushmore University. Dr. Hartinger kindly agreed to share his career experiences and lessons with me so that I could pass them along to you.

Dr. Hartinger started off presuming that the quality of your education was very important to career success. After graduating from his business program at a German university, he soon learned that you have few occasions to apply any of the theoretical knowledge that most schools provide. As a result, new graduates are stuffed full of knowledge and theory that has little relevance to what their employers need.

Instead, degrees qualify people to be considered for certain jobs. Many employers pride themselves on hiring from certain schools and restricting top jobs to those with the most advanced graduate degrees.

Traditional schooling provides few insights into what various industries and types of jobs are like. If students aren’t careful, they’ll seek a type of work that they won’t like. There are two alternatives available:

1. Examine industries and jobs carefully to set the right objectives.

2. Study at a school where you get practical experience in applying theoretical knowledge which gives you a sense of what a career doing that work might be like.

Dr. Hartinger doesn’t rule out the first alternative, but he’s confident that the second one is essential. If possible do both, but at least do the second. From what you learn, he also recommends that you focus on just a few opportunities. Otherwise, your attention and energies will be too widely scattered.

A lot of business success depends on your personality. That’s something that graduate schools often ignore. Outgoing people with pleasing, helpful personalities will do a lot better than grumpy, self-absorbed geniuses who rarely talk to anyone.

Many studies show that the ability to connect to other people in the organization greatly helps both job effectiveness and advancement. Why? It’s simple: You can’t know all of the answers, but with help from others you can do a great job.

But it’s not enough to simply be a connection point within the organization. You also need to add skills that improve your effectiveness.

Here’s where online learning can make a difference. People don’t care where you learn a skill; they are just pleased when you add one that’s relevant to your situation.

Today, many companies offer financial assistance for those who wish to learn new skills. When that assistance is provided over the Internet, costs are reduced and you can take more courses than those who enroll in classroom-based courses. In addition, learning while you work allows you the chance to apply what you are learning. In that way, you can sift through lots of theoretical knowledge to get just what you need. Dr. Hartinger also notes that if an online school offers flexibility in designing courses, your skill improvement can be even greater.

Golf can be quite an expensive game to play once you factor in all the costs associated with it such as golf clubs and other equipment. You may feel the need to purchasing knock off golf clubs in order to save money, but it’s probably best to stay away and spend a little extra on better quality clubs.

While a pro may be able to discriminate the differences between knock off golf clubs and the real thing, a novice might have a little more difficulty telling the difference. To prevent the purchase of a fake, always deal with a reputable dealer that is certified to carrying particular name brand models.

Anytime you’re purchasing a name brand golf club such as Callaway or Dunlop, always request certificates of authentication. If a seller tells you that they do not have one, then it is strongly suggested to go with another seller who does as you do not want to pay full price for cheap knock off clubs.

If you are able to inspect the golf club in person, then you should be able to immediately tell whether the club is real or not just by looking at fine details. If you are still unsure, then give the club a test by swinging it and seeing if it feels comfortable for you.

Whether you choose to purchase knock off golf clubs is entirely up to you but keep in mind that companies like Callaway spend millions on engineering and development. Knock off companies are simply trying to make as much money as they can but the quality will never compare to the real thing.