Macdaddy

Team Lead

What are your sales strengths? Answer this question to find out.

Hey all, if you were to consume yourself; would you completely disappear or would you double in size?

Please provide an explanation behind your answer. At EOD I will provide you with a key that correlates with your sales acumen and strengths.

And no... this is not a glass half empty or half full question.

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Chep

WR Officer

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

I would double in size so I could dominate in pro sports

SandwichMan

Catalyst

BDR Team Lead

Pretty sure you'd just turn into a pile of feces

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Do explain further Mr./Ms. Sandwhich. What is the why?

SandwichMan

Catalyst

BDR Team Lead

Thanks for the open-ended pronouns, it's actually xe/xi.

My thought behind this question is what actually happens when you chew your flesh and swallow it? Probably just gets digested like anything else right? So it's going to end up being shit, and you're eating yourself, not your shit. The big pile of feces is the most logical outcome to this cycle.

inboundsalesrep

Politicker

SDR

This question makes my little pea brain hurt

Incognito

WR Officer

Master of Disaster

hmmm - well I can only eat so much at once, so I would decrease in size as my body would have more time to break down the volume I consumed into energy vs mass gained. Not possible to completely disappear because you would be dead at a certain point - but still at mass level that was a net negative.

I tend to think literally haha

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

I don't believe my change would be measurable for I am like a Lay's chip - you can't have just one.

Nairobi

Politicker

What do you mean by "consume yourself"? I feel like this is a tricky question 🕵️

Nairobi

Politicker

Alright, detective Nairobi has found a clue. You said to answer "this question", but you asked two questions: "what are your sales strengths" & "if you were to consume yourself; would you completely disappear or would you double in size". So which one is "this"?

CoorsKing

WR Officer

Retired King of the Coors Knights

Going to provide two alternatives:

Eventually everything I eat gets processed into energy, or waste. If we assume it takes me some time to eat myself, I would burn some of what I eat as energy. Eventually the rest gets digested and turns into shit. So technically I wouldn’t cease to exist, but I would now be a smaller pile of bones and shit?

technically when Snakes accidentally swallow their tales they never double in size because you can’t create mass/energy from scratch (thermodynamics) so at no point would the double in size option work in a logical scenario.

Now if we take logic out and look at the question hypothetically ignoring thermodynamics (the fun answer), then the answer is infinitely big right? Because as I eat myself, whatever I ate just became me so eventually I have to eat that again too, so it would be a slow infinite expansion until I have enough gravitational pull to be my own fucking universe, The Meechy Way.

CharmingSalesGal

Politicker

Account Executive

I'd double in size because I am a lot- a lot of big thoughts about a lot of things, a pretty big appetite in general with moderate ADHD so constantly moving around and burning energy as well, a big personality that most people have to warm up to.

Did I even answer this right? Am I high without marijuana right now? What is the bigger meaning of life?

UserNotFound

Politicker

Account Executive

"Am I high without marijuana right now" is the best way to describe how this question made me feel too! hahaha

BigCheese

Notorious Answer

Agency Recruiter

Well, I think you'd probably die, but if you somehow didn't die, you would technically remain the same mass. But then I guess if you ate your stomach, all of it would fall out. So you'd basically just be a pile of organs and body parts.

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Oh shit, you people have put my mind in a mental pretzel. If you allow it I'll put compile this data and respond to this question in the morning. Kudos for the thoughtful answers.

BigCheese

Notorious Answer

Agency Recruiter

Of course 👍

hurtscuzimold

Opinionated

Dude abiding

I would disappear and be replaced by a villainous version of me who would throw all ethics and niceties out the window. That person would be a billionaire with no friends or family.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

I’d say objection handling and overcoming brush offs are some of my best skills, nothing to fancy I know, but gets me around calls

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Did you read the post?

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

I did, that's why I empathized that it was nothing too fancy. Why go all out to pin point every comment that you don't like? If you read through the lines, you'd see that I wouldn't even grow of shrink. I have a basic set of skills, nothing too fancy but nothing too be ashamed of.

AlphaCharlie

Arsonist

Account executive

I've been silent for some time but do see how some users are always going of their way to "expose" people for posting something similar that someone said or even worse, calling them out for "not reading" have you considered that someone interpreted the post in a different way or has a language barrier or simply a different opinion?

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Perhaps a language barrier is a factor, but there was a question prompt that @Macdaddy presented and @Kinonez decided to ignore it. Had they answered the question then there could have been a deeper way to expand based on the results. That's how I interpreted the response.

AlphaCharlie

Arsonist

Account executive

Did @Kinonez ignore it or did just not give the response you thought was acceptable? Is growing 6 times as much or shrinking the only way to answer? The thing is @poweredbycaffeine is that you do this constantly, trying to "expose" everyone for no reason at all, and frankly there is no reason to do it. It makes you appear as toxic, which is the last thing the community needs, we are all trying to learn from one another not point out who is the "very best"

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

You know what—you might be right. I have a low tolerance for bullshit and I nip it in the bud. Do I do it tactfully in all cases? No, and that might be a weakness of mine. I demand a lot from people, and I don’t posses enough empathy as I’m a hyper pragmatist. Should I give people more grace? Yes. Do I do it because I care deeply and challenge directly? Yes. Am I prone to obnoxious aggression? Also, yes. I think I’m going to take a break for a month and see if the community still interests me. Lots of value to be shared, but maybe I don’t have a tolerance for low value BS anymore.

AlphaCharlie

Arsonist

Account executive

Why is answering a question a different was considered low-value BS? That's the whole point, you assume everyone is just shitposting or trying to beat the system, many of the users who post the same threads are new, and still learning and might not even know there is a search bar. I am in sales too, I like value more than everything but I don't go all out to make people feel like shit.

Here's my advice, as a salesperson, you should try to develop your empathy it makes wonders for your prospects.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

I'm sorry you thought I ignored the question @poweredbycaffeine, that was not the intention I thought the answer was implied. I don't want to make a rukus out of this, no one is asking you to take a break, I know your actions come from a good spot, but I didn't just write a comment without reading either.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

Thanks @AlphaCharlie It's nice to know that a some I met at the war room has my back! This is true friendship!

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Nah, it’s time. I got rid of all social media for this reason. I invest too much time in moderating things that aren’t mine.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

It’s funny when you hear someone tell you to develop a human skill that they don’t have. It’s like telling someone with OCD to relax. They can’t, though they are constantly trying. Anyways, you’ve done me some good today.

AlphaCharlie

Arsonist

Account executive

No one is born with every skill, some we developed through time, anyway the advice came from a good place, not trying to make you uncomfortable or anything.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

I agree with Charlie here, I had a hard time empathizing as well, I was raised in a world where "boys don't cry" don't show your emotions, and I have lost a prospect or two for being unable to place myself in their shoes. I am constantly working on it though, and have seen some small improvement, but have miles to go.

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Those are surface-level strengths. This is an exercise to uncover something deeper.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

Those are, I agree, I still have much to learn that was my point exactly

CodyG43

Contributor

BDR

funny thing is I've already ran into a similar situation. "When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus"

BmajoR

Arsonist

Account Executive

Where are the answers?

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Still searching

goose

Politicker

Sales Executive

Meeting myself?

The consequences of that could be disastrous. The encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum and destroy the entire universe. Granted, that's a worst case scenario.

SabertoothSales

Valued Contributor

Southeast Regional Manager

Well, it depends (classic sales answer coning in hot) on how fast I consumed myself.

*If I could do it in one quick bite, then I would double in size and then maybe get stuck in a loop of consumption and size doubling until I took over the sales universe!!!
*If it did it slowly, then I would have time to digest each small bite and eventually turn into nothing / a pile of shit like @SandwichMan suggested.

UserNotFound

Politicker

Account Executive

If I consumed myself, I'd be exactly the same size... because as you take, you give... this question makes me feel crazy though.

SDMHGWarrior

Tycoon

CEO

I would quadruple and then have hockey stick exponential growth. My personality is bigger than life but I am also charming, provide lots of rationale and am incredibly organized.

SaaSguy

Tycoon

Account Executive

Building trust. It shortens my deal cycles and I often skip out on testing/POC's and make it easier for myself and them.

Socialatte

Good Citizen

Spray N' Pray

Personable, persistent, and always answers the right questions

draculina

Fire Starter

process development specialist

I mean literally, one would die before completely disappearing. Probably due to blood loss.

wait aren’t we talking about self-cannibalisation lol

GDO

Politicker

BDM

I would stay the exact same “size” since no molecules are added or disappear. Although the overal structure would change.

0PercentCloseRate

Politicker

Oh boy

If I were to consume myself I would be a mess of chewed up chunks on the floor because I would bleed out and vomit up the raw meat and die

countingmyinterest

Politicker

Account Executive

I would double in size because I am a man of diminutive stature.

looper1010

Celebrated Contributor

Solutions Specialist

I mean, you'd probably stay the same size because you're consuming yourself. Equal in And equal out?

mollybloomstanaccount

Politicker

AE (Account Executive)

There's one reality where I would disappear, and an alternate reality where I would double in size. Both exist at once, time is a flat circle

NoSuperhero

Politicker

BDR LEAD

I've been told that my cool and professionalism usually standout in my calls. I have no idea how but that's what they say

Carlil

Fire Starter

Sales Account Manager

Def uncovering needs. Get to know my customer and ID where it's hurting.

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

Pretty sure over lockdown I have consumed myself and doubled my size.

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