In this episode, we discuss the importance of not taking your theories too seriously as you apply them to the real world.
Full Transcript
Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about how you need to go out and implement the things you learn. When you learn things in school, it might seem very simple but out in the real world, it can be a lot more complex. I studied economics and public health and those theories I learned were way simpler than what I can apply to the real world. Supply and Demand is a great thing to understand, but how you can manipulate those lines, is even more important. As you learning from this podcast you have to understand that each lesson is not a fit all solution.
You might learn something that won’t apply for ten years, but it will be a tool that you can apply to be successful down the road. You just have to make sure that you can accept some failures and be okay with being wrong in the situation. In the real world, you’re going to be dealing with people and people have their own biases and different levels of comprehension. This is why theories are rarely simple and clean.
As people, we don’t make a rational decision. We make decisions that are going to benefit us. That decision might protect our ego, our health, or increase our benefit. So when you interacting with 7 billion other people in the world, then what you’re trying to accomplish is going to be messy but it is our job to clean up the mess and get the job done.
Right now I’m taking all these marketing classes and it seems very straight forward but when I go implement what I learned, I’m not getting the results that I want. So I have to go back to the drawing board and see what needs to work. I can’t control the outputs but what I can control is the inputs. The number of times I try. When Thomas invented the light bulb with his team, it didn’t take one try, it took many different tries. The theory was there but the implication of that theory needed some work and it took a lot of tries. It probably got messy and frustrating, but with enough persistence, we got light bulbs in our lives and how much better is the world for that perseverance.
Once I graduated from school and got out into the real world where I was constantly put into situations where my theories were not lining up with what I was taught exactly. When I started as a financial planner, I thought it was going to be pretty straight forward. I would tell people that they need to do these things with their money, and they would be fine. But every person that I interact with has their own story, their own level of education, their own struggles, and their own levels of ambition. I’ve dealt with some people that I just couldn’t help because I couldn’t get past all the other issues that were preventing them from taking control over their finances.
I’ve learned a lot about people and they keep things from being simple and clean. This is fine because that is what people are, they are people. If people were not like this, then we would probably live in a world with a bunch of robots with bland food, no music, and no art because why would people create those things that are not important to survival.
So in life, we have to accept both sides of the coin and when you’re going out in the world to try to build something, you have to realize that your theory is probably going to get a little bit messy. You just have to navigate around the mess and pull everything together to make it world. Life is a challenge and this is apart of the challenge of life.
The worst thing that we can do is just quit. When we quit, then we are letting down the world and ourselves. The world needs us to be ambitious and to help solve the problems of the future. It’s not going to be clean, it’s going to be very messy, but if we work on our skills and become strong individuals, then we can more likely over any obstacle that comes our way. To solve the problems of the future, we need to bring a bunch of different skills together to make something new. That’s what I’m doing with Grow With Joe. I want to combine financial planning with self-development coaching because I believe that is the combination necessary to help people with their money but also give them a better career and better relationships.
I have been doing this for the last four years and it hasn’t been easy but it has been fulfilling. So I’m going to keep going and do what I need to do as a person.
Thanks for listening today’s episode, to summarize it, theories are simple and clean, situations rarely are. So don’t get upset when things don’t perform as well as they were planned. Just go back to the drawing board, perform another trial, and see if it works out. If it doesn’t, then try again.
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