# 242: The Prison of Thinking
Story behind the Passage
To say it straight away — the passage above by Davis has little to do with the topic of my poem today. Still, the two came together today. I discussed Davis in a reading group today while I was busy fixing a business issue during the rest of the day. The only obvious overlap I can find is that thinking serves as a prison. Especially, thinking is in the way of selling. If you want to sell something, you have to focus on the simple basics to not get lost. You do not have to think about what you are selling in detail, you do not have to think about selling in general — you just have to do it. If you do not follow this simple rule, you will not get anywhere.
My Learnings
Doing good and talking about it.
Talking about stuff that does not matter.
“You have a luxury problem!
Why do you even care?”
Just sell it, it is great.
You have it all and there is a market.
People need what you have.
Who cares what they do with it?
Just focus and shoot
Then it will work.
You will get there because
You have been there before.
Why did you even shift your focus?
Yes, it was thinking that kicked in.
Too much thinking is in the way.
Too much thinking spreads to talking.
Selling needs special talking.
No doubts and no complexity,
No hypothetical ifs and options.
A product is a product
It has a price
It has its customers.
This is how business works.
It works quite well if you play it.
There is fun in this,
There is joy and money.
There is fulfilment and liberation.
And there are great people.
The solutions are needed
And there is value too.
It just takes time to get it right.
When you can choose your clients.
All this learning helps,
All the loops are necessary.
Locking yourself into the prison of doubt,
Makes you a slave to your own brain.
It helps if you get to a point,
Where nothing is working anymore.
At least it seems this way.
If you then switch perspectives,
You will soon see again.
That what you sell is what you love.
And stuff that you love will sell.
It is that simple.
Just sell it.
Free yourself from the prison.
Show others the way out.
Reflection Questions
1) What is your self-made prison?
2) Are you a good sales person — also in a figurative sense, e.g,, by selling ideas?
3) How do you think about the quote by Davis above?