Was I Right Or Wrong Not To Try To Put Mr Wrong Right?

A few days ago I recommended that you include your email address in your newsletter so that your subscribers have an easy way to contact you.

Since I added my gmail address to the footer of my email newsletters I have received quite a few emails from my subscribers. I respond to every one of them personally.

Usually, once the question has been answered or a suggestion or comment responded to, the correspondence comes to a natural conclusion. Sometimes, however, the correspondence continues for several emails and begins to resemble something more like a private coaching course. I don't mind that at all, and continue to work with my subscribers for as long as progress is being made.

When They Refuse To "Get It"

But sometimes there comes a point when you realize that the other party just doesn't get it, and has probably not absorbed or applied any of your training, whether in the newsletter or the more personally tailored information you have delivered in the email exchange.

At that point you will need to decide whether to take a tough approach and slug it out like Rocky, or whether to be more like Bruce Lee and "be like water" and flow on by...

Are you the rock or the water?

Introducing Mr Wrong

Something like that happened to me this week. One of my subscribers, who I shall call "Mr Wrong," emailed me a while back for some guidance on some aspects of the Freebitcoin platform, which I provided.

This led to a series of emails in which the subscriber usually had some particular problem with the site, the nature of which was not entirely clear to me due to the vagueness of the details.

Then, this morning, my subscriber responded to the latest newsletter he received from me, about Noise.Cash, with an astonishing - and irrelevant - insight:

"hey david, 100 million satishis [sic] to make one bitcoin."

Rather than guess what he was driving at, I replied with an equally brief request for clarity:

Hi Mr Wrong,

What are you trying to tell me?

I don't mind giving my time to helping subscribers with relevant questions and genuine problems, and perhaps there was a real question behind Mr Wrong's gnomic observation, but I doubted it. So I kept my response brief. Brief, but open... IF there were a real question behind the email the follow up would reveal it...

He he! Here was the follow up:

in order to get one bitcoin someone has to do this forever which means its a waste of time to try to roll get 100 million satoshis dont you think?

What this shows us is that Mr Wrong has already decided the case. The question tag at the end is merely an appendage, an afterthought by someone who is seeking agreement.

And let's face it, if your only Bitcoin accumulation strategy is to click the "Roll" button on Freebitcoin once every waking hour, then it would indeed take "forever," in the loose sense of the word, to accumulate one whole Bitcoin! Mr Wrong is not wrong on that point, but of course, it completely misses the point of my training about working with the Freebitcoin platform!

Time and Energy are Limited Commodities

However, time and energy are limited commodities and I do not intend to expend them by flogging a dead horse or by attempting to put Mr Wrong right.

But before I offer my response to Mr Wrong's email, I'd be interested to know how you would have handled it? It is time to ask the crucial question: #whatwouldrobwillmanndo ?? And what would you do? Your answers in the comments please!

Okay, here's how I responded:

Mr Wrong, If all you are seeing is rolling for a few satoshi per hour, then I guess for you it may be a waste of time.

My response elicited this reply:

dont you think to get 100 million sastoshis is a waste of time for anybody? i mean its a joke.who the hell wants to do something rediculous [sic] like that.

Mr Wrong reiterates his fixed opinion in a more vehement (but not offensive) tone.

Again, how would you respond?

Would you go into bat and attempt to show him what he is obviously missing?

For me, I prefer to "be like water" and preserve energy by flowing around the rocks of objection.

So here was my response and the conclusion to the correspondence:

For sure, simply rolling for a few satoshis per hour.

I rather liked matching Mr Wrong's gnomic opening with an equally gnomic conclusion of my own.

Cheers!

David Hurley
#InspiredFocus <== stay focused by avoiding those who won't learn.

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