This summer I had the esteemed privilege of being a keynote speaker in front of 8000 of the world’s top financial professionals at The Million Dollar Roundtable. Recently someone asked me, “Rory, aren’t you intimidated talking in front of people of that caliber?” My response, “Absolutely not.”
Why?
Because contrary to what you might think, it’s not successful people that are too good to learn anything – they got to where they are by being a student of the game. Quite the contrary, it’s the marginal producers of the world who are typically cynical, inconvincible skeptics. It’s the mediocre performers, the average among the masses, the naysayers and the un-excellent that are the ones who often think they know it all.
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This summer I had the esteemed privilege of being a keynote speaker in front of 8000 of the world\u2019s top financial professionals at The Million Dollar Roundtable. Recently someone asked me, \u201cRory, aren\u2019t you intimidated talking in front of people of that caliber?\u201d My response, \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d <\/p>\n
Why? <\/p>\n
Because contrary to what you might think, it\u2019s not successful people that are too good to learn anything \u2013 they got to where they are by being a student of the game. Quite the contrary, it\u2019s the marginal producers of the world who are typically cynical, inconvincible skeptics. It\u2019s the mediocre performers, the average among the masses, the naysayers and the un-excellent that are the ones who often think they know it all.