"I'll need to know this for later"

Sometimes it is useful to be knowledgeable about those business models you will never use.

For example, it is beneficial in that:

1. You might get stuck in "the grass is always greener on the other side syndrome," if you remain unaware of what is on the other side.

2. You might be able to integrate some of the best practices or avoid some of the worst practices of another business model, thereby improving upon your own position.

3. You might discover new opportunity by opening your mind up to how other people do things.

Creativity comes from knowledge.

But I do understand what you mean.

knowledge behind wisdom. Kills it

Yes, many of the methods I've bought, I don't use, simply because they don't actually WORK in practice! However, I've learned a thing or two from each, and that has gradually built up my knowledge until I started making some money in IM.

If you have a bunch of methods you've never used, re-write them and make a big Ebook about it all, and sell it I might get around to that sometime, as I've saved 100s of potentially useful methods and bits of info!

Chris

Knowledge is power and even if you don't use a skill... knowing it is still beneficial. As tpw pointed out.

You don't KNOW something until you USE it. If you READ about it, HEARD about it, SEE IT used somewhere, you don't KNOW it.

To KNOW something means to be able to implement it because you have experience in doing exactly that with the thing in question.

I know the definition of to know is different than what I say here. But that does not bother me...until you use a method, you only know OF it, or you read about it, or heard about it.

It does not become internalized knowledge until you apply it and actually DO IT.

I know because I have read up on marketing methods for over 10 years. What I have discovered though is that it doesn't make me a red cent KNOWING about anything. It is by APPLYING the knowledge you actually get results.

´scuse me, but I gotta go DO something I READ about somewhere...

~Olav

I used to be a plasterer until i packed it in and went back to college to study network administration. I dropped out of college after 2 years because i realized i was trading one job for another and couldn't imagine myself working in an office for someone else for the rest of my days. You could say that those two years were wasted because i certainly do not use anything i've learned in college these days, but, i also realize that i found internet marketing through this process because it led me to working with computers.

I can't see how i could have went from a plasterer to an internet marketer without those 2 wasted years in college learning network administration. It was necessary on some level. I could also say i wasted 13 years plastering because i certainly don't use those skills anymore. Maybe it was the recession that led me to where i am now. Maybe it was the college experience and maybe it was just inevitable that i was to end up here. All i know is that here i am and a lot i've learned along the way has helped me in some ways regardless whether or not i use those skills anymore.