Dear ,
I've waited many months to have this conversation with you.
It's very important for you to realize that I've been a numbers guy my entire life. I'm entranced by them and know that accurate numbers don't lie.
That said, many people have a hard time agreeing or admitting with accurate numbers. There are a host of reasons for this not the least of which are: ego, ignorance, fear, apathy,
etc.
Ego, is perhaps the biggest one. Why, you may ask?
As you get older your heart tends to get harder and your ego gets very very fragile.
You simply can't handle the truth, thanks Jack!, for fear that you'll look weak, stupid, or fill-in-the-blank in front of your friends, co-workers, children, etc.
I get it. I see this ego-blocker - that's what I call it - all the time in my Ask the Builder
business with homeowners. I'm currently dealing with one right now in Ontario, Canada. A woman simply can't deal with the fact that she was dupped. She is stinging from the fact that the trust she placed in someone, in this case a contractor, was not reciprocated with honor and truth.
Have you had that happen to you with a contractor, a lover, or a friend? Someone who betrayed your
trust?
How many times in the past three years here have I told you that I felt that you've been played?
Five, ten, or more?
For the past two years I've been laying low. I didn't have the numbers to support my own personal theory.
I was waiting for the numbers to
crystalize.
First, you need to know that my retired brother-in-law was a mortician. I know a bit about that industry. I know that they keep fastidious records.
I also have friends in the insurance industry. Talk about number crunchers!
I've been waiting for this industry to step forward and sure enough on investment calls they've started to report what's going on.
It's deeply troubling. You'll see some
numbers in just a few seconds that should shake you to your core.
But will your ego get in the way? That's the question.
Here's another one:
Are you a person who can't rationalize facts because your position is based on emotion(ego)?
The tipping point for me happened about a month ago when I was watching a late-season Cincinnati Bengals football game. In
the opening moments, Damar Hamlin died.
You do realize when your heart stops beating, you die, right? That's what cardiac arrest is.
I'm sure in the past you've heard the phrase about the Vice-President of the USA being one heartbeat away from being the President.
Well, after minutes of on-field CPR and being zapped with a
defibrillator, medical technicians gave Damar a second chance. They stole him back from the Grim Reaper while he wasn't looking.
Ninety minutes ago I started watching an hour-long video that finally put forth the numbers I knew were out there. Numbers I knew some other numbers guy like me
would excavate and expose.
That number-crunching guy is Ed Dowd. Here are a few words from his latest book - Cause Unknown: