Come for the Ride…

In my few years in the business world, I’ve found that most people I talk to about trendy businesses fall into one of two categories - the haters and the embracers.

It’s still unclear to me why someone would hate on successful people or businesses but I’m sure you’ve all met them since many of them utter phrases like:

“I hate M$ because of blah…” (following others like sheep)

“Apple sux! Vista rules!” (never touched a Mac)

“Facebook is overrated! I can come up with a better solution.” (what hasn’t already been done?)

“This (insert app here) sucks!” (and the hater has no clue what it does)

Perhaps there’s a little jealousy within the hater to see others be successful. Perhaps it’s the Napoleon complex at work. Whatever it is, the haters just seem to hate on everything that’s successful and refuses to have anything to do with it.

On the flip side, we have people that embrace success and flock towards it. People are flocking to Facebook? Let me setup an account and see what it’s about. Social marketers are on Twitter? Let’s hop on that channel and get the inside scoop. Like Sylar, these people like to know what makes things tick so they can analyze the ingredients that make up the winning formula for themselves.

The funny thing is, entrepreneurs fall into both groups above. On one hand, we have people who create technology but are so sure of themselves they don’t care to learn from others’ mistakes. On the other hand, we have people studying from all businesses and through their passion, network and connect with the right people in the industry to enhance their careers.

Being that both groups are headstrong, it’s hard to tell who’s wrong and who’s right. However, from my observations, the ones who embrace success tend to be the ones that come out on top. Not only are these people migrating towards business/social hot spots, their positive attitude and their willingness to learn opens doors for them to meet other like-minded people. The ones who hate usually tend to be big talkers that don’t put their efforts into much else besides hating and burying their heads in the sand. Even if they did accomplish something huge; being grumpy never mesh well with others who like to network and learn.

So the question is… which group do you fall in?

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