Back when I was 15 I overheard this fun fact about denim.
Apparently standard denim jeans would be fire resistant or fireproof. (I don’t know the difference)
This sounded crazy to 15-year-old Alex.
I used to wear jeans only. Nothing else.
I had filled my closet with jeans. Which is funny if you think about it because I barely wear any jeans today.
But still. Jeans? Fireproof? I couldn’t just believe that without testing it out myself, could I?
So little old me devised a genius master plan. Or something like it.
Me and some friends from school at the time wanted to do a ‘scientific’ experiment and test the hypothesis that jeans are fireproof.
This was our plan:
I would take my jeans, spray them full of deodorant, and light them on fire with a lighter. Sounds simple enough right?
But here’s the thing. I was at school. This was during our lunch break.
I obviously didn’t bring separate jeans with me. I was wearing THOSE jeans.
So there I was. Spraying my jeans with deodorant. How else would we light it after all? We had to REALLY test it.
So here it went, I had my lighter ready.
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Fire!
Immediately my jeans lit on fire. Everyone looked at me and we were all equally amazed, “Wow! Fire!”.
So cool I thought.
But then it got hot. REALLY HOT!
My legs were burning, obviously. Why didn’t I think of that?
I panicked because I was literally on fire. So I did the only thing I could think of.
I pulled down my pants and got out of them as fast as I could. There I was. In the middle of my school, in my underwear because my jeans were on fire.
After taking of my pants, we immediately stopped the fire and that was that.
I had some burns on my legs, but not much. Just first-degree burns.
My jeans had blackened in some spots, but that was about it. They weren’t really damaged.
So in the end, it turns out: my jeans were fireproof…but my legs weren’t.
But I learned something that day. I learned experiments can cause harm. Especially if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Sometimes it’s better to learn and accept the lessons others have discovered before you.
In this case my legs were burned. But in business? Imagine the damage you could do by not learning from others and having to discover everything for yourself?
How much money would you miss out on over a month? A year? 10 years?
How much, really? $10,000? $100,000? $1,000,000? $10,000,000??
I’m not quite sure. But it’s a lot, let me tell you that.
But luckily for you, you don’t have to discover everything for yourself.
I did the testing and experimenting for you. I’ve been writing emails for 7 months now. I’ve written plenty of emails that made sales. And so many more that didn’t.
I now know which ones bring results, which ones don’t, and most importantly, I know why.
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