What's your competitive advantage?
Timothy "Tim" Hughes 提姆·休斯 L.ISP
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Today is the anniversary of the death of my grandfather,?Joseph Hughes.
For many people, that's all we know about?grandparents, lucky for me, he was persuaded to write an?autobiography.?It's (too) short but he gives a fascinating insight into his parents, so my great grandparents and his early life.?And the world that was in the early 20th century.?It's a pity that the story ends with my fathers birth in?1932, but it paints an interesting picture of turn of the century London.
Joseph, was?working class, which would have been the term used at the time.?He left?school?at the usual age with little or no exams and went to work in various manufacturing jobs around?London?where he lived.?
To cut a long story short, his mother met some people in?Hampstead?(in London) who were writers and they had typewriters and these typewriters needed to be fixed.?His mum said, oh my son can fix them and Joseph did.
For fixing those typewriters, they gave him a typewriter as a gift, it was a?Remington Seven?typewriter.
Looking back from our position of computers and mobiles it was nothing but?for him it was life changing, it was his competitive advantage.?
Why?
Up until then, he had to write letters to factories to get a job, now he could use a typewriter.?In fact he wrote to an advertising agency, what is what was to become?"the national trade press".
Here he started a career in?advertising.?
What are you going to do in your life which give you a competitive advantage and may even change your life??
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2 年This is an inspiring story. Makes me take stock of things I do better than “most” other people and inspires me to develop those things further. Thanks for sharing this Timothy (Tim) Hughes 提姆·休斯
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2 年That's a great story, Timothy! It shows how every generation has the opportunity to embrace new technology. It can change the trajectory of one's life.
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2 年Tim I absolutely loved this story! What an incredible piece of history you have right here and your grandfather absolutely demonstrated competitive advantage!!
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2 年That’s a lovely, inspiring story Timothy. Thank you for sharing!