Comments on: Modeling excellence: fast-track to success or reckless road to ruin?

By: Patrick Badstibner

Patrick Badstibner — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:20:30 +0000

Modeling is really only good as lessons learned. What you share is not so much modeling as mimicking, because we are not puppets, we can never be completely successful mimics. In the consulting and mentoring field, I have found most are like children, the have to learn the hard way. The biggest secret to success is perspiration. Since no one else can perspire for me, I guess I am left to my own demise.

Thanks for a great post, as always very encouraging read.

Pat

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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:23:15 +0000

[...] Jonathan Fields placed an observative post today on Modeling excellence: fast-track to success or reckless road to ruin?.Here’s a quick excerpt:Open any book on success, personal development or self-help and, without fail, you’ll find a section on “modeling success.” There, you’ll be told to find people who’ve done what you’ve done, study how they did it, then replicate their … [...]

By: Shama Hyder

Shama Hyder — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:57:05 +0000

Hey Jonathan,

I think modeling, like everything else in life, is really situational based and requires sifting.

You take what works and leave what doesn’t.

Here is my method-study many models, take what works, and create your own model.

-Shama

By: Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:30:13 +0000

Hey Corinne,

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, I have prety mixed feelings about modeling, too. I know that, applied to the right behavior and with the right intention, it can have some pretty powerful results, but those are two pretty major prerequisites that a lot of folks often get wrong (hey, me included).

Plus, though modeling and copying are two different things, I think they get used interchangeably a lot, which just deepens the confusion about what modeling is and isn’t.

Have an awesome week ahead and thanks again or joining in the conversation!

By: Corinne Edwards

Corinne Edwards — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:13:08 +0000

Dear Jonathan -

I am enjoying your articles.

“Modeling” scares me. We are all so different. I remember that Amazon promotion. I even bought the book at the exact time because I knew the author and wanted to help.

It was a good book by the way. But it didn’t make it in the long run.

Listening to people who have been successful is a different horse.

You can then take their ideas and make them your own. If they fit.

I have always been in the sales and promotion industry and I have found that when money is the objective, it always backfires.

My theory is that we should promise less and deliver more.

We have to keep our purpose clean. I have never become rich but I have always made a living with that goal in mind.

Keep up the good work. We are listening.

Warmly,

Corinne Edwards