First post tells me to be the master of my domain and stick to what I know. Then later in another post I was told to get out of my comfort zone to grow into uncharted territory. I don't get it.

Thanks I think it's a matter or vertical growth or lateral expansion. People have been successful with both approaches. I'm not so certain one is better than the other. But yes, you are right about doing things other people won't. But that means going the extra step, not to be interpreted as doing the unnecessary.

BTW, I'm just hypothesizing so please take no offense But I wonder if there are people out there similar to Dreamer in principle, effort, belief, etc but are not successful and thus go unnoticed. Sure Dreamer may be one out of many that follows the same model but that would mean following that model itself does not guarantee success.

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Added on August 18, 2011, 10:23 amAh well tiger beat me to it

This post has been edited by Xerone: Aug 18 2011, 10:23 AM

Agreed. There is no guarantee. But I believe the message here is to let us know we must go the extra mile to stay ahead of the game. This is common sense but a reminder from a third party is still valuable. Though I think the question whether we should stick to what we are good at or not isn't the best build-up to that message. Again, vertical growth and lateral expansion both works.

Um please don't use obituaries as source of unbiased review. Retrospective post mortem comments are always designed to dramaticize the life and death of a person. It's hard to separate drama from fact, if there's any.

This is getting off topic but Dreamer's style of educating can be described through push vs pull. He's aggressive and thus represents the push style. Certain audiences are not receptive to pushers since the natural reaction is for the audience to be defensive when they are shocked into believing all they have done so far is wrong. I'm more of a proponent of pull because I rather be liked and is not good with confrontations. Again two sides of a coin. Dreamer is smart but cold at time. I'm pretty sure he knows this well. But he does solicit a great number of responses whether positive or bad.

Debbie brings up an interesting point of discussion. She IS successful in getting to her goal. You may see her as being unsuccessful because you are measuring her relatively to someone else, not her goals. I should really research further on this Pak Dollah but I honestly can't say he is successful if he is just a wayang kulit player. Others would beg to differ. Just what kind of success are we talking about here?

Sorry it's awh who brought it up.

This post has been edited by Xerone: Aug 18 2011, 11:38 AM

Yeah. Even if we are talking about financial success, different people will have different financial goals. Maybe we should return to the original topic which is about being rich, not about being success because they can be exclusive or each other.