Some, the minority in my experience, teachers are wonderful and have a clue about what they are doing.

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Even if we fail, as I have done many times in my life, we learn what not to do by experience and doing the new.

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In other words, the optimum training experience would have been to examine what each student was doing so everyone else could see without crowding around different workspaces.

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And then I have to stand in front of a hundred people, often people I've never met before in my entire life, and you have to believe so passionately in what you're doing in order to actually enjoy that experience.

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Here is that secret first step: If you have no experience selling anything to Chinese people or organizations in actual China, admit that you do not know what you are doing.

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