You Would Never Expect This of Your Business

At work you invest money, time and thought, and you ask around for years. With English people expect a magic method, try it briefly, and drop it.

September 5, 20263 min read

At work, you prepare extensively in order to do the job well.

In business, you invest money, time, thinking and effort continuously. You ask one person, then another. Nobody expects a route that finishes the whole thing in two hours.

English somehow gets treated differently

When it comes to learning English, people expect a magic method. Sit down, follow it exactly, try it briefly, and if results do not appear immediately, abandon it.

How would that ever succeed?

You would not believe it in business

If someone told you they had a miraculous method to make you a hundred million dong in two hours, would you believe them?

First, methods like that are usually a scam.

Second, when someone tells you the method requires persistence over months and years, that is the honest version.

The cost of constantly switching

One or two months in, it feels hard, it feels discouraging, so you stop. Then you switch to another method. Then another.

Two things are required, in this order:

One, find the right method.

Two, stay with it.

Neither works alone. Finding the right one and not persisting is the same as never having found it.