Wanting and needing are two different things
Not knowing what you need is annoying. But even worse is to get something you want. Why? Mainly because it’s probably not going to work for you.
Just because you see someone with something you ‘want’, doesn’t mean it will be right for you.
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Summary
People keep confusing wanting with needing, especially with apps and systems. They pick things because they’ve seen someone else use them, not because they actually need them. Separate what you want from what you need, and you’ll recognise what you actually need is pretty small. Check your current apps first because they probably already do the job.
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I’ve always said wanting and needing a completely different things. People want to use that app or service because someone else is using it. And I’ve made a video about the grass isn’t greener on the other side and generally it isn’t.
Now people go out searching for an app that they want to use and they use it for a while. And that’s fine because they want to test it out. But more often than not, people go out there look and do so much research about how, how people are using that app rather than what they themselves need with that app or what they need to do, basically.
I always say find what you need to do and then find the app that works for it. And again, it’s okay going out there to do the research as to what app would work for you. But more often than not, people want the app because other people are using it. people want to use a system because someone else that they admire or like whatever use. Right.
So they want to use that app because someone else is using it rather than them actually needing it. Wanting and needing, again, as I said, are two completely different things.
I want a Ferrari. I don’t need a Ferrari. I have a perfectly good car. I want jet skis, but I don’t really need them because I don’t. go jet ski. It’s kind of a bad example. But I think you know what I’m trying to say.
Wanting and needing two completely different things. And if you can separate those things, you’ll realise that what you need is minuscule compared to what you actually want. And that actually goes with life in general. But we’re talking about tech.
So you wanting to do something and going out there searching for an app different. You wanting to use the app because that person is using it, watching those YouTube videos, that’s not good. It’s something you probably don’t need.
Anyway, look through your system because the apps that you already have probably do everything that you want it to do. You just don’t know how to do it. Figure it out, and I’m sure there’ll be people out there that can help you with that. Obviously me.
Anyway, have a great day and I’ll see you in the next one. Ciao. Bye.