If I had to call one ability that separates effective people from the ordinary Joes it would be "recognizing his own non-fatal fails".
Besides the obnoxious idiots everyone is capable to recognize a slap in the face. When he loses something valuable. When his house burn down because of letting candles unattended. When he crashes his car. They might even learn from them. After all - again, except for obnoxious idiots - most people manage to avoid the Darwin award. Hell, they might even learn from the fate of less "lucky" fellows and avoid doing Darwin-class fails.
Since games have no real consequences and most games have no ingame consequences either, most fails are acknowledged with the usual "lol" statement and the M&S specimen moves on his epic quest to get the next shiny the developers placed into the current content patch. However some games have consequences. In EVE you can lose the product of weeks of grinding if you do it wrong. Between such circumstances the previous paragraph applies: most players learn from the idiotic mistakes of themselves and others and don't make really bad moves.
However avoiding mining in a 0.5 system connected to lowsec in an untanked Hulk makes no one rich. It merely make him not totally broke. Not being an epic idiot isn't winning, it's merely ... not being an epic idiot. The difference between the mediocre, dime of a dozen moron or slacker and the effective, rich person isn't handling huge mistakes. It's about handling small, merely relevant mistakes. Because there are lot of them and their combined force is enough to keep one being "constantly out of luck".
You probably don't remember the moron from a month ago. He bought 46 pieces of books for 70K higher than vendor price. Many have defended him that "he could afford it" and "when I'll have hos much ISK I'll do the same". Well, I just did. I bought 30 books for 21.65M instead of 21.60. That's practically rounding error. It's nothing compared to the profit I make with that (they sell around 24M). Still, I miss that 30*0.05 = 1.5M, despite that's just 0.0075% of my total wealth. I know that I made something silly and it's not "lol", it's something to fix. I also know that time is money, so I have to figure out a path that allow me to buy these from the 21.60 vendor while not putting too many extra jumps to my path.
Another "honest mistake". By the way, I hate the term itself. Accepting these and ignoring them is the best way to make them by the dozens every day, making sure that we remain averagely poor. This time I was updating the price of an item and noticed that a nice bunch is sitting in my hangar, thanks to the buy orders. They were selling for 24.99999 M, so I typed in 249 and started pressing the zero key until the above/under regional price counter moved to the +-50% region and hit enter. No new line appeared but my money count jumped up. I checked transactions and recognized my "honest mistake": I misclicked, so sold another item that I wanted. I sold it for 249M while the running price was 330M. Nice way to say goodbye to 80M. But hey, it's not so bad when I make 500M a day. And it's a "game lol", who cares?
I do, because I don't want to make such fails. I kept thinking until I figured out a protocol to avoid that happening again: every time I sell something, I press the magnifier icon on the sell window. This will update the market window for the item. If it's a wrong item, the update will show its own market details, so I'll sell it for the proper price.
I'm also notorious for leaving the items I meant to haul on the stations. "my ship iz empty lulz" - the M&S would say, along with "i turn back lol". Except I know that time is money and I don't want to turn back. So I created the protocol of having the assets window open while hauling. If it has more than one line, I left something, so I can turn back after one jump instead of a dozen. It's not perfect as it doesn't protect me from leaving stuff on my home station (as I always have something there, so it always has an asset line), but it's better than nothing. I just double-check before leaving that station.
Finally when I was capital-limited I prioritized Orca over Retail 5. Now I'm sitting over 5B cash, unable to invest it as I have 53/53 market orders. Is it so terrible to have "only" 4-500M/day income because the 5B makes no profit? Of course not. But it's still a fail. I should have planned better, especially as my second account alts would take 3x more time to all learn it.
So the way to get rich to take your small fails seriously instead of finding excuses like "I can afford them" or "others do more". Both are true. But you have to decide if you want to be just like the "others", who are mediocre by definition. Also, you have to decide what you want to afford: mistakes or a titan? You can't have both.
EVE Business report: Thursday morning 20.5B(2 PLEX behind for second account, 0.3B spent on Titan project) Remember that you can participate in our EVE conversations on the "goblinworks" channel (60-80 people on peak time) and your UI suggestions are welcomed.
Besides the obnoxious idiots everyone is capable to recognize a slap in the face. When he loses something valuable. When his house burn down because of letting candles unattended. When he crashes his car. They might even learn from them. After all - again, except for obnoxious idiots - most people manage to avoid the Darwin award. Hell, they might even learn from the fate of less "lucky" fellows and avoid doing Darwin-class fails.
Since games have no real consequences and most games have no ingame consequences either, most fails are acknowledged with the usual "lol" statement and the M&S specimen moves on his epic quest to get the next shiny the developers placed into the current content patch. However some games have consequences. In EVE you can lose the product of weeks of grinding if you do it wrong. Between such circumstances the previous paragraph applies: most players learn from the idiotic mistakes of themselves and others and don't make really bad moves.
However avoiding mining in a 0.5 system connected to lowsec in an untanked Hulk makes no one rich. It merely make him not totally broke. Not being an epic idiot isn't winning, it's merely ... not being an epic idiot. The difference between the mediocre, dime of a dozen moron or slacker and the effective, rich person isn't handling huge mistakes. It's about handling small, merely relevant mistakes. Because there are lot of them and their combined force is enough to keep one being "constantly out of luck".
You probably don't remember the moron from a month ago. He bought 46 pieces of books for 70K higher than vendor price. Many have defended him that "he could afford it" and "when I'll have hos much ISK I'll do the same". Well, I just did. I bought 30 books for 21.65M instead of 21.60. That's practically rounding error. It's nothing compared to the profit I make with that (they sell around 24M). Still, I miss that 30*0.05 = 1.5M, despite that's just 0.0075% of my total wealth. I know that I made something silly and it's not "lol", it's something to fix. I also know that time is money, so I have to figure out a path that allow me to buy these from the 21.60 vendor while not putting too many extra jumps to my path.
Another "honest mistake". By the way, I hate the term itself. Accepting these and ignoring them is the best way to make them by the dozens every day, making sure that we remain averagely poor. This time I was updating the price of an item and noticed that a nice bunch is sitting in my hangar, thanks to the buy orders. They were selling for 24.99999 M, so I typed in 249 and started pressing the zero key until the above/under regional price counter moved to the +-50% region and hit enter. No new line appeared but my money count jumped up. I checked transactions and recognized my "honest mistake": I misclicked, so sold another item that I wanted. I sold it for 249M while the running price was 330M. Nice way to say goodbye to 80M. But hey, it's not so bad when I make 500M a day. And it's a "game lol", who cares?
I do, because I don't want to make such fails. I kept thinking until I figured out a protocol to avoid that happening again: every time I sell something, I press the magnifier icon on the sell window. This will update the market window for the item. If it's a wrong item, the update will show its own market details, so I'll sell it for the proper price.
I'm also notorious for leaving the items I meant to haul on the stations. "my ship iz empty lulz" - the M&S would say, along with "i turn back lol". Except I know that time is money and I don't want to turn back. So I created the protocol of having the assets window open while hauling. If it has more than one line, I left something, so I can turn back after one jump instead of a dozen. It's not perfect as it doesn't protect me from leaving stuff on my home station (as I always have something there, so it always has an asset line), but it's better than nothing. I just double-check before leaving that station.
Finally when I was capital-limited I prioritized Orca over Retail 5. Now I'm sitting over 5B cash, unable to invest it as I have 53/53 market orders. Is it so terrible to have "only" 4-500M/day income because the 5B makes no profit? Of course not. But it's still a fail. I should have planned better, especially as my second account alts would take 3x more time to all learn it.
So the way to get rich to take your small fails seriously instead of finding excuses like "I can afford them" or "others do more". Both are true. But you have to decide if you want to be just like the "others", who are mediocre by definition. Also, you have to decide what you want to afford: mistakes or a titan? You can't have both.
EVE Business report: Thursday morning 20.5B(2 PLEX behind for second account, 0.3B spent on Titan project) Remember that you can participate in our EVE conversations on the "goblinworks" channel (60-80 people on peak time) and your UI suggestions are welcomed.
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