Beware of Posers
As you move ahead with your home business plans, various types of people will try to attach themselves to you. The worst kind of person of this type is, in my opinion, the poser.
The poser pretends to be more capable than he actually is. He will often pretend tq be an intellectual—thinicing that occasional attendance at the opera and visits to art galleries increases his brain power. Let me tell you a secret—it doesn’t!
Don’t think that I’m anti-intellectual. I’m not. What I am against is the automatic assumption by some people that just because they read poetry and listen to classical music they therefore know so much that they can tell you how to pick and run your home business. The ability to read poetry and listen to music does not necessarily mix with the ability to run a home business. In fact, my experience shows that the two abilities usually do not occur in the same person, though either ability can be developed if the other exists first.
Be friendly with posers—you may be able to put them to work in your business when you need some cheap help! For when you probe the posers’ real worth you find you can’t afford to pay him much because his skills are so limited. He senses this and is willing to work for the lowest kind of wages so he can pay for more poetry books and classical records. Meanwhile, your home income will increase because of the work he does for you. So:
Be friendly with posers but keep them out of the financial areas of your business.
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