Are you letting the dumbest 5% run your life?…looking for Cheeto Eaters
How can the slip of one finger set off some people with such anger and stupidity?
So here I am wanting some people to participate in a poll on our website about whether or not a web seminar would be something they are interested in. The response I got for one mistake in that email would send most people into a phobic cave that they would never return from.
The thing that I find about people on the internet is that it is the place that you really get to see what they are like. People show what they would do in real life if that could get away with it.
So in this email I sent I made the obviously horrible mistake of typing ‘pole’ instead of ‘poll’.
OK look at that again. One letter can unleash a firestorm of criticism.
I can see how the kids of these people are going to desperately need a lot of self help. I almost want to get their names so I can help them recover from their parents over critical torture that will send them into a spiral of social anxiety. Imagine what it must be like to have someone constantly looking over your shoulder waiting for you to make a mistake. It would screw up most healthy people. I can’t imagine what is would be like to have that happen to someone who is more easily knocked off center.
So to answer all of those out there that have nothing better to do than jump at anyone who is less than perfect…Yes I do know the difference between ‘pole’ and ‘poll’. A poll is a survey that I kindly requested some help with. A pole is what you have up your ass next to your head.
I think it is amazing that anyone puts anything on the internet. Theirs are millions of insecure people whose only path to self esteem is bashing other people over the head for minor mistakes. You have met his kind of person. No matter what you have done, they have done it better. No matter what you do. You could have done it better. No matter what good thing happens, is was not good enough for them.
Luckily for me I don’t have the ability to care. Long ago, about 20,000 emails ago, I learned that 5% of the people out there make 90% of the negative noise. Read that again. 5% of the people make 90% of the negative noise in the world. If you listen to the 5% then you are letting those 5% run your life. In many cases you are letting them RUIN your life.
( EMAIL WARNING….Yes I know that one of the 5% will run out and tax their brains to figure out if I really wrote 20,000 emails over the last 10 years. Let me save you some time. You are an idiot…get a life. )
I used to do the same thing. I used to do sale on the phone. I made 300 phone calls a day in order to find 10 prospects. Most people were nice. Once a day I would get someone who would just tear my head off. If that happened in the morning I would let it screw up my whole day. It just took all the wind out of me. It was way less than 5%. Still it screwed me up.
If you let that 5% ruin you day you are letting the dumbest people on the planet run your life.
I realize that you most likely already know this. The problem is that your emotions run away from you and there is no way to rationally overpower it. The only answer is to train your brain to react differently. The reaction you want is the ability to access the parts of your brain that your emotions are sucking the energy out of. When you react emotionally you take all the power of your brain and focus it in your anger, sadness, depression, fear or any other emotion that sabotages your happiness.
About 8 years ago I was in the middle of a classic internet flame war. I was exhausted by it and I went to Kim and was complaining about it. Being the compassionate person Kim is she warmly told me one simple thing. “Stop it, those people are morons and I am sick of you trying to convince idiots that you are right”. Ahh yes……how delicate and loving 
I was so emotionally invested in being right that I still could not stop even thought I knew Kim was right. I had to prove to the 5% that I was right about things like rapport, 3D Mind, self improvement, and persuasion. So there I was wasting my valuable time trying to convince a bunch of people who had nothing else better to to that sit at their computer in their underwear eating Cheetos while stinking up their moldy bedroom in their mom’s house.
I realized one very important thing…..these guys are not my target market I don’t want them getting our products. I don’t want them anywhere near me. Instead of talking to my target market I was wasting 90% of my time trying to counter the 5% of Cheeto eaters.
The 5% Cheeto eaters were eating up my life as well as turning their fingers permanently orange.
So what is the point of all of this. It is simple. Look at your own life over the next week and identify the Cheetos Eaters in your life. Notice the emotions that you have the keeps the cycle of Cheeto eater chasing that you are doing. Notice how it effects the quality of your life.
Most of all…..have fun!
Tom
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That typo is fantastic!!! Hilarious!!!
Damn them cheeto eaters. And Lemon and Scampi flavoured Nik Nak eaters too.
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I’m so glad you cleared that up for me. Because I know you have an international clientele, I spent hours looking for a guy named Lech.
Tom
Maybe your just jealous of their superior to even GOD perfection.
I think it’s way more than 5%. 30 years of the SELF-ESTEEM obsession has turned people who don’t deserve to have any, to think they’re GODS’. I find most people today including family and ex- friend are smug, arrogant, egotistical, intolerant, angry, hate filled, self righteous, phony hypocrites who don’t have the courage or brain power to look at themselves honestly. Let a conservative speaker on a college campus and the parrots of TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY and MULTI-CULTURALISM, charge the stage and physicaly attack them.
Interesting bit of psychology:
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Nice site
It’s good to provide some more feedback about the webminars
I marked “Sure if I can interact” mostly because is important to me be able to make questions and clarify things out.
But I agree with those posters regarding that the stuff you teach is better absorbed in live seminars.
I think that until economic gets better these webminars could be a good and cheap enough solution to deliver the training, provide the audio is clear and high, and the video be smooth.
I still prefer the live seminars
An for the spelling, I commit much more than you so I better hide the hand with the rock
I answered…and I guess it means something different if I didn’t notice the spelling mistakes
. Mind you, I’m probably used to those and don’t care.
Spelling is important in … job applications due to “making an impression”. Everywhere else, I think surely to God isn’t the message more important?
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Oh I answered “Maybe”
. I spend so long..TOO BLOODY LONG working on the Internet that I’m not sure I should spend further hours on it. However it’d be cheaper than travelling to a seminar 
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Tom,I noticed that too. As a writer I must say that I was momentarily, (please underline ‘momentarily’), affected by your mistake, but only because I hold you in such high regard.
I think there are many, many people out there who also hold you in such high regard that they expect a great degree of perfection. Be that as it may, I still fully accept you and your ideosyncrasies, and I especially appreciate all that you do for all of us.
My best,
Deane
As usual, the bidget hits it out of the ballpark again. My corollary is never get into an argument with an idiot; he’s always an expert on his rules.
PS One ezine that I get starts off telling everyone that he purposely mispells words so he can get through the spam filters. If you complain, you are removed from the list (No Soup for You like Seinfeld).
I remember in the old days when I saw one of your typos I looked at the keyboard to see what letters were close. Then you got voice recognition software and I had to start thinking, what does that word sound like, to figure out what the machine thought it heard.
I always found it fun, like a puzzle, not a huge life crisis.
Great post by the way. Or maybe I should say, grate post, lol
Seems like those people are still getting at you, hence the long complaint about them. Mind-Trap!
No they are not getting to me at all. I just took the opportunity to point out that it is the dumbest 5% of the world that makes the most negative noise. Just like it is just the 5% of most poeples lives that they focus on that make them miserable.
I noticed the error too but I’m used to your typos by now, they don’t affect me
I replied to the “pole” with ‘Maybe’ because if the seminar is about skills like rapport and anchoring, a LIVE seminar is definitely better. Maybe if you can structure it in a way where you have daily homework and a more defined structure, it could work for anchoring and rapport as well.