In late March of 2020, Jim Phillips was asked to review a small but-out trailer. Click on the link below to see his comment and instructions.
Personal Thought From Jim
I want to make one thing perfectly clear — I don’t know everything. In fact there are far more things that I don’t know than I do know.
Being more than 70 years long-in-the-tooth now, and sometimes when people look at my resume, work experience, skills, writings, publications, attend my lectures, come to my classes, etc., they put me on some kind of pedestal — that’s kind of scary.
I’m just an ordinary guy who has lived an extraordinary life and been privileged to experience an amazing array of things. Along the way I’ve picked up a larger than average knowledge base and skill set. It has been, and continues to be a fantastic ride.
I’m privileged to share some of what I’ve learned in the hopes that it will be of benefit to you and make a positive difference in your life.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear — I don’t know everything. In fact there are far more things that I don’t know than I do know.
Being more than 70 years long-in-the-tooth now, and sometimes when people look at my resume, work experience, skills, writings, publications, attend my lectures, come to my classes, etc., they put me on some kind of pedestal — that’s kind of scary.
I’m just an ordinary guy who has lived an extraordinary life and been privileged to experience an amazing array of things. Along the way I’ve picked up a larger than average knowledge base and skill set. It has been, and continues to be a fantastic ride.
I’m privileged to share some of what I’ve learned in the hopes that it will be of benefit to you and make a positive difference in your life.
Here are four things to keep in mind as you are learning form me or anyone else:
If along the way we earn a little money for the team effort that’s gone into this, that will be terrific too. However, that will have to come along later after we get a number of additional things working properly.
Have a terrific day,
Jim Phillips
- ‘There is more than one way to skin a cat’ — Different people may have a different approach and solution to a particular problem. Multiple options are great, so gather as many as you can. However, be sure that you are actually comparing apples to apples, i.e., is it really the same question, arriving at the same answer?
- I firmly believe that no one has the right to teach (or sell) anything they have not actually lived. You’ll find lots of neat ideas on the internet and in books that look good in the demo or discussion, but do they actually work in real-world circumstances? Especially when things have gone really wrong and someone’s life depends on it.
- If you are really seeking after knowledge, then you must know what knowledge actually is. This website, any website, video or even the National Library of Congress does not contain any knowledge. The only thing in them in is information—just information, no knowledge. The way I define knowledge is “K = I x E”. Knowledge equals information multiplied by experience, and both the information and the experience must be true, correct and credible, or else the new ‘knowledge’ you think you have is false, even dangerous.In other words, until you take good information and actually use it and prove it, all you have is information that might or might not work.Better not bet your life on that.
- Know what the principles are behind the instruction. If someone cannot explain the principles involved (how and why something works based on the laws of physics or quantum mechanics), then how can you trust the answers being given. A good instructor (if he knows his stuff) will always explain why, how and what is going on at every level. He should also explain what does not work — usually because he’d tried it and learned the hard way
If along the way we earn a little money for the team effort that’s gone into this, that will be terrific too. However, that will have to come along later after we get a number of additional things working properly.
Have a terrific day,
Jim Phillips
