We have a 100% chance of dying. So that means not trying anything meaningful. But the .005% you have better odds of getting eaten by a shark are EXACTLY the stuff everyone should try.
I guarantee there are a bunch of people who can bench press 350 pounds, do the 40 in 4.3 seconds and throw a football 70 yards who are driving garbage trucks while Tom Brady does more with a lot less.
I remember, just starting my career, that they told me I would never win one single swimming match in my whole life.
I ignored the naysayers.
Jumped right in. I won the race. I heard my father yelling go baby. My mother was cheering also. You can do it.
The other 50 million sperm died.
Later on, I was in an airplane. A private plane. I got sick, had to visit the restroom. While waiting for me to recover my best friend took off again. He got killed.
For ten years I did not go near airplanes. Drove to California twice.
A psychiatrist hypnotized me, suggested I take flight lessons, pretend I was a member of Top Gun.
After starts and stops I got a private license.
Pilots laughed when I wanted to get an instrument rating. In two months.
One guy said, "John Glenn got his instrument rating in 6 weeks. You're no John Glenn."
He was right. I was not John Glenn.
I hired a former instructor in the Navy's Top Gun program and got my instrument rating in 6 days.
I agree that the odds of a big publisher making the average writer a millionaire is tough.
Self-publishing is tough too since no one knows who you are.
I bet no one ever thought about a zero-cost way to write a book and receive 100% profits.
I am pretty good at day trading. In 1987 was able to quit my job at Merrill Lynch and work for myself.
In 2006 I created an e-book that described the methodology. I partnered with a telemarketer who could sell Costa-DelSol vacations to Dracula.
We sold $8.3 million dollars worth of the $0 cost e-books at $1,995.00 each via the telephone.
So tell me why any of you could not write a book about your life, get a list of people from a list broker, call people for 4 hours per day (ya might make a few friends although 90% will yell at you), and sell that book for $19.95?
Alex
