After 20 years of unsuccessful cold-call selling, John W Voris decided to throw out everything and take a fresh approach. Drawing on his degree in Philosophy, he invented a ground-breaking approach to personal inquiry that revealed a person’s life motivation and authentic design far beyond sales. Now, as CEO of Authentic Systems, John educates using practical and teachable methods and techniques based on European Psychology that guides others in their life choices regarding success or failure in their career, relationships, and personal well-being. Often compared to Jordan Peterson by his colleagues, John is an international best-selling author and passionate about leading people to attain their life goals by helping them find their true motivation.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the first one was to convert feelings into words… I did this for 20 years but now I have to put it in writing in order to get it communicated, that was very very hard. I even bought a dictionary that converted English into Latin hoping maybe I could find something that I could call these ideas that I had, I have to give them a name… It took me a long time because I had to go through many sources from psychology and philosophy and sociology and anthropology, just a whole slew of areas to find out how do I language what I did”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Arthur Schopenhauer BooksFavourite Quote:
“The mind only has one need that is the perpetual need to express our authentic identity and we do that through objects, events and people”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users in the form of opinions. Its publisher, Quora Inc., is based in Mountain View, California.
- Academia edu is a place to share and follow research
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“really look at what you’re obsessed with… Look at your life and say what has really been present with me. Sometimes you can’t see yourself so ask a wife or a husband or friend what is it that has been present with me that I seem obsessed with? And that can really open a lot of doors for you. And then once you have that then you know what direction you really should be going, not can but should be going into”…[Listen for More]
More About John W Voris:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine
Other Quotes From the Chat with John W Voris:
- “brains are for sale. And if you don’t have any they are always there to buy”
- “I’ve found that all the obstacles were necessary because all the directions I went into I went into with the idea of exploration and so I knew something could be a dead end and it was okay because I had to find out if it was a dead end”
- “many entrepreneurs think that they can do all of it. And they have fantastic abilities and skills in just a few areas, that’s where their expertise is. When you have a business there are all these other hats you have to put on. And that’s what can really be a struggle for people”
- “compulsion which is obsession, when you find it, it has you, it does have you and you have to be able to recognise that”
- “Love, Justice, Wisdom and Power”
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