Unfair Advantage - You already got what it takes

Have you ever wondered, what makes you stand out from the crowd?

How did someone like? Elon Musk become successful, while others have not?

We all have often been told that - Success is directly proportional to the grades you get in your education or the amount of handwork you put in work.

What if that wasn't true?

yet we find people have failed despite their academic achievements.

What if those who succeed simply had an unfair advantage over their competitors

What if we find out that we have all got our own set of unfair advantages, we can use to succeed in our lives as well?

Life is fundamentally unfair, we all have heard a phrase - The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

Find your unfair advantage instead of playing the victim,

Or you can Focus on developing your own unfair advantage -

When you have an unfair advantage your odds of starting a business or succeeding in life, Significantly? grow,

With the unfair advantage human who is likely to fail to an extraordinary entrepreneur who is likely to succeed

The question is how do we find our unfair advantages? -

To find out - you should know its properties first -

• It must be unique to you, so they can easily be copied by other people
• Like someone tall, and has an edge in Basketball

There are 5 Primary Advantages that stand out,

The 5 Advantages hold the acronym MILES - Framework

M is money,

I am Intelligence

L is location or luck

E - expertise or education

First Up Money -

• We all know how important money is,
• Consider Bill Gates,?for example
• Bill Gates is from Seattle, Washington, He studied at Lakeside Prep School,? one of the best schools in the USA where only 2 schools in the world had computers at that time, Bill Gates was one.
• His mother was on the board of directors of one of the top banks she was also a part of the United Way Board, Where she knew computer science companies like IBM and GE, He also formulated a programming club - which Bill Gates, Along with GE computers she formulated a Programming club for kids, where Bill Gates was encouraged to do programming.
• but if we see
• Having money is not all it takes, MANY Of the company's offer fails despite receiving funding,
• having the right strategy to utilize that money is what changes the game.
• Jeff Bezos ? says "The greatest creative ideas come from Frugality?"

Intelligence -

• If you see Elon Mask, was from a poor family in South Africa, he was bullied in school which is why he moved to Canada, He had exceptional intelligence, Which gave him a competitive edge over others he started creating products to solve people’s problems from a very early age
• Intelligent people feel easy to solve problems
• Even though people who are not so intelligent, if a person shoes? empathy and communication skills open becomes more successful than? an intelligent one

Location and Luck-

• MarkZarburg, CEO of Facebook at the right place, at Stanford University, where new software ideas were formulated every day.
• The idea of a social Networking website was shared with him by his colleagues, and they happened to build it together
• People often say this is something out of our control, But?Studies have shown that merely thinking, I am lucky - will increase your chances of luck
• If you believe that you are lucky, you are more likely to start something new and strike up a conversation with someone beside you, More chances are you will meet someone who changes your life
• Lucky mindset + Willingness to take action is more powerful.

Last but not least in the MILES framework

Education and Status -

• People who graduate from good prestigious schools and universities, like IIT, have an advantage and are preferred more than people who worked at Google
• Even if you don't have
• You can develop these skills by being very good at your skills? and market yourself
• BE SO GOOD, THAT THEY CAN'T IGNORE YOU
• Personal branding these days has more value than education name.

STAUS

• Of course, status is very important - Elon mask status is so high right now, Any company he starts and in whatever field no matter how boring the name is, is more likely to be successful
• One is external status and the other is Internal Status,
• We can develop internal status, even if we don't have the outwardly status
• That is how we perceive ourselves, How our self-esteem and confidence, these skills can be developed or changed

In the end, just ask yourself these questions

I idea behind this miles framework is that we can use these categories to help us figure out what our own unfair advantages are

These questions -

• Any career path that you take, that you want to be good at it naturally?
• How have I been lucky .. and Where can I go to increase my exposure ..?
• Where am I noticing problems? And I can solve it
• How can I be more resourceful, and create the longest run-way possible

When we think about success, we can think about all the things we don't have, We can fixate on the things that we don't have done that will blind us, from the unfair advantages we have The competitive edge that we do have

We often don't appreciate that - wherever we are whatever stage of life we are in, We have so much to be grateful for.

As Ash and Husan talk about in the book,? - it is about knowing the realities and unfair advantages we all have and looking at the

and

I believe that Success is the combination of Fair and Unfair PLAY

We all have unfair advantages - But we have fair chances to develop and grow ourselves to achieve that.

The ideas of this article are taken from the book - Unfair Advantage By Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba.