Never accept the first level of an idea

Feb '23 (edited) in Other

Bryan Johnson, world record holder for epigenetic age-reversal said quote: ''I've learned to never accept the first statement about a given thing''. His idea got me to think because as a synthesizer this would also be applicable in other regions. In his case he used the example:

Chocolate is good for you (level 1)
Dark chocolate is good for you (level 2)
Non-dutched dark chocolate is good for you (level 3)
Non-dutched dark chocolate without heavy metals is good for you (level 4)

So what we see here is that despite widely accepting ideas like chocolate in this example, we could also use this exact same idea in business.

𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀

The consultancy business is highly profitable (level 1)
The consultancy business is highly profitable within a niche (level 2)
The consultancy business is highly profitable within a niche when the right techniques are applied such as dream100 (level 3)
The consultancy business is highly profitable within a niche when the right techniques are applied such as dream100 combined with leverage and accountability (level 4)

And the list goes on. This list doesn't exclude other options of probability, but instead look at when a level makes logical sense to your niche.

This was just a thought I wanted to share.

Rather than blindly accepting a statement, but ask deeply ''why is this statement true or false, and how many levels do we have to dig before it becomes true, is this statement true just on its own or does it require digging''?

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