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I took the RP prototype a decade ago with the Game, mystery method and others, wrote notes, taught people what I knew, but it was effective for one part of life only. My own self-bullshit-belief had been a filter over what was really happening to me (or rather, what I was making happen to me). But it lapsed over the last 5 years because I didn't know anyone taking TRP and I became a pussy in the areas I wanted to do well in. I'm talking panic attacks, depression, insecurity in decisions at work .. I didn't know what I didn't know.

I started (and finished) NNMNG last night, fucking cried at my realisations, the bullshit parts of life I'd let drop, saw the reasons why I fucked up so many things, got disgusted at myself, angry at all these missed opportunities and made the decision. I did my breakfree answers and slept at 5am.

Today, I need a job. I've been applying for jobs the last 2 months in a supplicating way and never got a call back.

Today I saw a job that's above me but I wanted it. I'd missed the cutoff by 6 hours and no chance. I called the company but the agent wasn't answering, the receptionist said it was already cut off and told me it was too late.

Fuck it, I decided I'll email him anyway and not use the online submission form. I wrote out my email and went to make a coffee, then the RP hit. Advice from MRP Mods washed over me, so I rewrote the subject as Bill, I'm late but I'm awesome and wrote the cover letter like I had already earned the job.

The agent called me within the hour and told me he will present me for the job, they can only put 2 candidates forward and I was one of them. I also negotiated a rate higher than I'd ever had before.

Fuck yeah!

I'm still a noob with a long way to go, but this is what it's all about.

Thanks TRP.


[–]meh6130 points1 point  (3 children) | Copy Link

Go you, u/YouSoGetMe ! So, your cover letter painted a picture of how your typical day at the employer would go?

[–]YouSoGetMe[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children) | Copy Link

No, I added here's why I'm awesome points that responded to the criteria without me sounding like a tosser (where my previous efforts were too value-searching) and mixed in results my bosses at the time liked: * Got user buy-in from different department heads having competing budgets. * Created workarounds that solved issue X without upsetting the status quo (we had no change-management). * Solved issue Y in Z time where they'd tried 4 times during the previous 7 years.

This was something TRP taught me and I don't think I've internalised it enough cos it's only been one night since TRP hit: bosses prefer when they don't have to worry about your work, and they can just trust it. I'm the same but I didn't see it before because I was too much of a self-opinionated fuckwit.

But that guy died.. this guy ended it with value-giving: I love this type of work, I’m effective, happy and easy to work with. Now, I have to make sure I don't swing the pendulum the other way and become too arrogant.

[–]meh6131 point2 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Of course they do. Bosses prefer the one who says "trust me, I got this" with confidence in his voice. There's a fine line between self-confidence and arrogance, but if you continue backing it up with results, the line will get further out.

[–]YouSoGetMe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

I totally agree and I'm glad I can learn from you guys. I didn't see that before, all I saw was the need for self-protection, and one-upmanship in order not to be white-anted or lose office credibility. I was coming from an area of neediness and made my own lack-of-abundance.

Since I retook the pill yesterday:

  1. original post above.

  2. previous company called and asked me if I was free to work with them, I gave them 10 days to get an attractive contract to me.

  3. a management consulting company asked to meet with them this friday.

  4. cleared up 8 large trees and all their branches/leaves that were lying cut down in the front yard. this isn't RP to many but to me it is because I attacked something I was trying to ignore. To me, it's get my shit done. When I finished, fuck I felt tired, aching body but inside I felt awesome.

It's like you said Income is a proxy for education and "people" skills .. part of my people skills I'm learning to improve are to show my bosses I know what I'm talking about and can achieve what they need, and it's weird but I can feel my inner core coming to the fore.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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