Personal Empowerment

For the first time in the history of mankind the playing fields are level. It doesn’t matter who you are.

Your colour, religion, race, health are no longer important. Especially if we can’t see them! All that matters is what you do with your brain. (And, of course, access to the empowering technology of the Internet.)

Bottom line: if you have access to the Internet there is no difference between you and some very rich folk like Mark Shuttleworth, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and a whole bunch of other staggeringly wealthy individuals.

They started out like most of us – knowing nothing about what the Net could do, or how to do it. And then each of them did something that led to those riches. I’ll get back to that.

Every time I write about how to make money from the Internet a gaggle of folk ask if I will do it for them. Here is a question. If I can make R50,000 per month off the Internet for myself, why would I do that same amount of work for you, with you taking R45,000 and paying me the remaining R5,000? Forgive me if that sounds rude, but the entire point of the Internet is that it empowers individuals. You are just such a beast.

The difference between Shuttleworth et al and us little guys is that they chose to be empowered.

They grasped the rose by it’s thorny stalk and took the pain of learning and fighting to understand and use this fledgling technology. That could explain why big Mark can afford to fly to the moon while you and I have to book an early seat at Kulula if we want to be able to afford a drink while on holiday!

This technology is there to empower you. You can choose to not be empowered (by asking a bunch of other folk to do it for you) but I can pretty much guarantee that you’re going to be disappointed by the results. And sooner or later, that fellow you’re paying to learn all the stuff that you should be learning yourself is going to up and away to his own private island.

The point is that you MUST do it yourself.

Just as a chef cannot learn to create culinary masterpieces unless she gets down and dirty amongst the ingredients and tools, so it is that you cannot know what you don’t know until you try and do something.

It is astounding how much what you don’t know will cost you.