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The fundamental attribution error.

If you don't know I am a Computer Science graduate.

Strange, huh?

How a computer graduate turned an Internet Entrepreneur? Or you might be thinking that since I am computer science graduate and I know the technical stuff and that's why I am very good at Internet Marketing.

Wrong!!!!!
One of the valuable things I learned in college was "people." I was never good at programming c++ or java or any other programming. I like db (database) because it includes brain storming.

Anyway it was all waste of time. I didn't learn much there. Whatever I learnt it landed me into a job but not freedom. The most valuable thing I learned was in my Sociology 130 class. That's why I discovered something sociologists call the "fundamental attribution error. "

Let me show you with an example. Say I shuffle a deck of 52 cards up real nice and good. Then I cut it and tell you that if you call the right color on top - you will win a prize.

Then I give you 1 of 2 options.  You can either call the color yourself, or you can have a stranger in the room call it for you.  The result - almost every single person chooses the "predict" the color themselves.

Make sense, right? Why put your fate in a stranger's hands? But that's an error. Because... it simply
doesn't matter... who call "predicts" the color. The chances are the same - 1 out 2.

The ramification is that in individualistic societies (meaning western societies), the average person
tends to over-estimate their own abilities. Somehow they think if they call the color it is better than
a random stranger or flipping a coin.

Here's some other neat stuff related to this. If you stopped 100 random people on the street, and asked
them to estimate how well they drive... and give them three options - (1)Below Average (2) Average or (3) Above Average...

Usually 80 out of 100 will say "above average". Hmmm!?

How is it possible that 80% are above average? It's not.

Again - the fundamental attribution is at work. The average, normal person tends to over-estimate their
abilities. And that's actually good. From a clinical point, doctors have found that people who are most accurate about their ACTUAL abilities are FAR more likely to be depressed. So it's actually good that you tend to think you're better than you are actually are :)

Now let's relate that to you. Understanding the fundamental attribution error, I think, is critical to your success.

Here's why - I joined an MLM company but I failed. I tried to get a cab license but I failed 3 times. I tried to become a singer but failed. I even recorded songs but failed at producing them. I tried to run a music company but failed. I joined the US army but failed. I thought that let's forget everything and become a monk and find inner peace. Failed.

All logic says I will fail. If I was being a SANE PERSON, and accurately assessed my abilities, I wouldn't have even given it a go.

But I did. Much to the chagrin of my father. (Hey, others can estimate your abilities far better than
you can - because they don't suffer from "personal bias")

Much to the dismay of my friends and relatives.

I did it any way. I started with affiliate marketing. Failed. Then I tried to do SEO stuff. Failed. Google adwords was next. I passed and became a master. But then google slammed me 3 times and I failed.

I should've quit right! There is no logical reason or indicator that I would make this work.

But the fundamental attribution error pushed on. And I kept going.

Then I started getting little successes here and there. Then bigger ones. Then bigger ones stills. And here I am before you today as a guru in Home Based Internet Marketing Entrepreneur.

I own a home now... and it's beautiful! I own few properties in India also. I am planning to buy more properties.

Mine - all because I continually overestimated my abilities to make things work. And I never gave up.

Sometimes you might get your emotion hot buttons tweaked by a sales letter... and when you combine that with the fundamental attribution error... you might make a quick buying decision and just KNOW this one product will be the one that turns it around for you.

Then three days later, in a moment of sobriety and clarity, you realize you made a mistake. Right?

Wrong! Even if this product wasn't the one... it could be the one before the one. It could make you that much more fed up... meaning that much more BOUND and Determined to find something that works.

And I promise you if you keep at it - keep over-estimating your own abilities to achieve... you will get it. I would bet everything I know to be holy on it.

Regardless of what's happened to you in the past. Regardless of your current skill and situation, just keep at it. The next one could be the one... and eventually WILL be the one. This is the one.

Thanks for reading. I have a personal stake in seeing you succeed, and I'd like to one of my best training programs to be "the one" for you. And you can fill the application at http://milliondollarresidualplan.com and join my winning team. See you inside.

Harprit Singh