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Opinions are like
bellybuttons, everybody’s got one. The thing that always drove me crazy in
school was the teacher explaining things to me that I knew he had no experience
with and no real world understanding of. Examples are most prominent when it
comes to art or business but it applies to everything. A most recent example
was my son telling me about his class where they are starting a businesses and
the teacher was giving a class on how it is done and that a farmer may be
better to shut his farm down and start a new business if it isn’t working out on
paper. I said ” a lot easier said than done” and then I heard my son
regurgitating the teacher’s justifications for this. Makes me want to puke to
hear this holier than thou armchair quarterbacking from a guy that never ran a
successful business or even had the nerve to try to run his own show. It seems
that school has become a place where “teaching” is more important than learning
how to do something. Titles, diplomas, certifications decide who gets paid most
to talk the most. Well the real world is something a lot of people are trying
to discover and the popularity of reality TV shows is a bit of an indicator of
this. I think people in general are tired of phony “experts” and want to
see the blood and guts of life. Whether it is a successful pawn shop like the
one featured on Pawn Stars, an auto mechanic and sales place like Gas Monkey
Garage or the big players interacting with up and coming little players on
shows like Shark Tank or The Aprentice, your average Joe knows the truth
when he hears it and is tired of posers. The reason I make this statement is
that if your looking to open a business the guy teaching you how do so better
have some real world success and better not be a textbook hero who never
stepped into the arena of life. Even a guy who failed miserably can teach you a
lot about what not to do. If you want successful teachers and advice go people
like Scot Cosentino and Andrew Scudera at the Goodfella’s Pizza School New York because
THEY DID IT and have created very successful students and have helped create
very successful concepts. Statistics and actual production are the only true
measure-not words and formal titles. Can they do it? Have they taught it? Can
you see the results in the physical universe? These are your only questions and
when you have someone that can’t answer them-move on and try again. There is
lot of false data on business and the food business in general. There are
some shoddy products passing as pizza for sure but that is slowly changing as
your average customer is learning about gourmet brick oven pizza and expecting
more. Whatever it is you are endeavoring to do, know that is more than the
average guy will ever try. Stepping into the arena requires guts and daring and
a dream. Don’t dare sell yourself short by following bad or incorrect advice.
Do your homework, see what is true for you and be a big success! Happy pizza to
you.
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