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- You think you can't do sales? Have you ever applied for a job, sold yourself to your current girlfriend, husband or wife, challenge a friend with fact or a value creation discussion? You have done sales...

This thinking is quite freeform. The following opinion is not one I hold strongly.

Selling myself to a girlfriend feels very different though. First, I need to define my target market. I like women who are quite like myself. I value intelligence and wisdom above everything else. So I screen for that heavily. One of the things I do is I look in their eyes, do they look intense and conscious? If so, it might be that they are my type, so I go up and talk to them and am my playful geeky self. If they like that and respond back in kind then I continue for asking their number and go on a date to drill down further on intelligence and wisdom. I mostly care about their learning ability after that.

Hmm, I suppose it isn't very different. Though, to be fair it sounds like a cross-over between sales and hiring good people.

I feel the difference in sales is that my girlfriend needs to add value to my life. Sales doesn't necessarily need to add direct value in life as long as it can add financial value through other ways.

I think you're quite right.

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