help me find a muse!

[zoeinthecity]

Hello All!

Yes, i'm yet another person who wants to chuck it all in, dye my hair blue and live in argentina.

Anyways, i'm having a challenge on "what i could be an authority on", i like the idea of information products, or selling someone else's products.

By profession i am a real estate broker, i have travelled extensively (as a solo female traveller on a shoe string, usually) and my hobbies are music.

Now all these sound great. but i'm having a hard time convincing myself that i could be considered an authority figure in any of these areas.

what would you buy?

Thanks for your input!

[TimW]

If I told you "what I would buy", why wouldn't I decide to make that my "muse"?

If you cannot convince yourself that you could be an authority on the things a) you know or b) you are passionate about, how can anyone convince you that you could be an authority on anything, including selling a product, since you would have no product knowledge and, therefore, wouldn't be able to answer questions, etc.?

The best place to start being an authority is on things that you know, have done or love. Anything else would require you fake it or learn it. And then you would know it, so you're back to square one...pondering how you can be considered an authority on it.

See the circular argument here?

[zoeinthecity]

If I told you "what I would buy", why wouldn't I decide to make that my "muse"?

If you cannot convince yourself that you could be an authority on the things a) you know or b) you are passionate about, how can anyone convince you that you could be an authority on anything, including selling a product, since you would have no product knowledge and, therefore, wouldn't be able to answer questions, etc.?

The best place to start being an authority is on things that you know, have done or love. Anything else would require you fake it or learn it. And then you would know it, so you're back to square one...pondering how you can be considered an authority on it.

See the circular argument here?


of course. did i ask the wrong question?

[TimW]

of course. did i ask the wrong question?

If you are asking that, I suggest you already know the answer this this question.

It boils down to this: How can any of us here (or at least me) possibly presume to tell you what you can a) be an authority figure on or b) convince you that you can/are?

Turn this around and look at your post from the position of someone being asked. Does this influence your thinking at all?

Just my thoughts.