The Trumped Theory


by Daniel Massicotte - Date: 2008-10-31 - Word Count: 475 Share This!

When I first heard of Donald Trump's financial success it was in the context of the word "millions." Not because he earned millions of dollars but because when he first started playing the game of deal making, he decided to raise the stakes to the millions, instead of the thousands or just hundreds of dollars.

As he explains in Think Big and Kick Ass, Trump quickly found that working with millions did not make much of a difference to him. Be it millions or billions, it all came down to the same thing to him. He could also handle a lot of stress which helped him tremendously.

Putting all the big numbers aside, I would like to discuss experience. We will come back to Trump.

Let us imagine that you are graduating from college with nothing to lose. You have no assets, no property and no collateral. You have taken the habit of asking yourself: What is the worst that can happen in this situation? This is a great question to ask when you feel things really could not get any worse. If your situation has hit rock-bottom, then take comfort that things will not be getting any worse.

For the purpose of this article (and Trump's situation), the worst that can happen is that you have to declare bankruptcy.

Intend it.

If in 10 years you will be declaring bankruptcy, I would think you would want it to happen with you owing millions, instead of thousands. No? You cannot get any lower than zero when you are bankrupt, and the effects are the same. Someone once told me that in life, I should be bold and courageous, because when I look back on it, I will regret the things I did not do rather than the things I did.

If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, you would do everything between now and then to make sure you lived your life to the fullest until you died.

Similarly, Trump has always taken his business to the top level by working with big numbers and big challenges. Last I heard he declared bankruptcy three times in his life. Most people only go through that once. Yet Trump has experienced far more than just bankruptcy. His persistence is amazing. He describes himself as living on the edge all the time, since that is where the excitement is. It is also during these times that things tend to happen.

For all the books Trump has written and the infrastructural work he has done in New York City, he certainly is not getting very much publicity. This man should be far more in the spotlight than he currently is.

Living your life to the fullest will mean that you will have to take chances and listen to your gut. Forget about the numbers and simply do what feels right and make it big.

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