I’ve just received a fantastic piece of news. Next week, I’m playing centre forward for Manchester United in a Premiership game. Now I never thought it would come off. I’m the wrong side of 50, not particularly fit and I’ve got two left feet. But I didn’t let that stand in my way. You see, I’ve taken my inspiration from the nation’s schoolchildren.  

Let me explain…  

Last year, a record 107,000 of them requested, and were granted special help in their GCSE and A level examinations. That’s more than double the number in 2005. These children have been given more time, the use of computers and other aids, in an attempt to help them counteract a whole host of physical and emotional problems including learning disabilities.  

I’m not really sure where the line is drawn between someone with learning disabilities, and someone who simply isn’t suited to academic examinations (or ‘duggies’ as they used to be known in my school). But it does seem from the figures, that some parents are increasingly using the system to gain an advantage for their children. We all have differing natural abilities, and I’m sceptical about the logic of discriminating in favour of children who are simply not as academically gifted as others.  

When I was at school, I was embarrassingly poor at art. Still am. If there’s an artist’s equivalent of dyslexia, then I almost certainly have it. I’m not exaggerating. My ability in that area has never developed beyond that of a five-year-old. But it never occurred to me (or anyone else) that I should be given special help in examinations. It was just accepted by everyone that I was crap at it – and would be better employed doing something else. And what’s wrong with that?  

Pretending that everyone is somehow the same, and should be given special assistance if they appear to be at a disadvantage just seems ridiculous. It flies in the face of the whole natural order of things which dictates that each of us ends up, on the whole, doing pretty much what we’re best suited to do. It sends us down avenues to which we are ill-suited, and diverts us from others in which we might thrive.   

Anyway, enough about that. You’re probably wondering how I came to be playing for Manchester United on Saturday…   

Well I got myself a trial, and told them I had physical learning disabilities. They were very sympathetic and arranged for the goalkeeper to wear a blindfold and the centre half to have his ankles tied together. They even gave me a little trampoline to use at set pieces. It was brilliant. I scored a hattrick, and now I’m in the team on Saturday.   

We’re playing Tottenham . It’ll be fine. Paul Pogba is a bit peed off at being left out, but it’s only fair…isn’t it?  

 John Harrison

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For the first dozen or so years that I held a driving licence, I owned nothing but wrecks. I was 30 years old before I paid more than £350 for a car. And I became well-known for the cosmetic appearance of my cars. If someone was having trouble explaining who I was, they’d say something like:

“You know who I mean…drives that white Beetle with the exhaust hanging off that looks like it’s been peppered with a shotgun.”

And immediately a connection would be made…

“I know him…” they’d say, “used to have that bright purple Cortina with the bumpers missing.”

So imagine how exciting it was for me when my boss at the time let me drive his brand new Jaguar XJ6. Several things struck me about the car, compared to what I’d been used to. All the doors opened for a start. So there was no need for the passenger to risk a nasty internal injury scrambling over the gear stick. And all the panels were the same colour. There was nothing on the car that had previously been part of another car that had died or crashed into a lamppost…

And the really exciting thing was that it had a computer. Now this was the first time, I’d seen a computer thar measured fuel consumption – not just average fuel consumption, but ‘instant’ fuel consumption at any one moment in time.

I was shocked by what it told me…

You see, I had a rough idea what the average fuel consumption for that car would be, but what I didn’t realise at all, until then, was what really burned up the petrol like there was no tomorrow. In my simple brain, I’d equated high consumption with ‘going fast’, but that wasn’t it at all. No, what really caused the fuel needle to lurch to the left was acceleration, changing from one speed to another.

Once you got up to speed, maintaining it was a comparatively frugal exercise. But getting there in the first place…that took a lot of energy.

I should have known this of course. Firstly because I’d endured Mr Turner’s painstaking explanation of Newton’s laws of motion in O Level Physics; and secondly, because I had a fair amount of experience of the energy required to push-start a vehicle. I think this is something young people miss out on today. It’s probably becoming a dying skill.

Getting the thing moving is the hard bit. Once it’s underway and up to speed, the burning in your thighs and lungs subsides a bit, and you’re cruising. It takes a lot less energy to maintain the momentum, that it does to build it.

I’m sure you can see where this is heading…

When I was trying to get various projects and businesses off the ground in the early days, it was a bit of a struggle. I’d look at other people operating in the same field and they didn’t seem to be struggling like I was. It seemed easy for them. And yet when I analysed what they were doing, I just couldn’t work out what they had that I didn’t. It’s only with the benefit of hindsight that it became clear.

What they had was momentum.

Whilst I was in an intense ‘acceleration’ period, and hence using an awful lot of energy, they had reached cruising speed and the energy requirements for them were not so great. They were running along with the car already moving, while I was trying to get it away from the mark.

I think this explains why so many people get disheartened and give up in the early stages of a business or money-making project. I hear from people on a regular basis who are not progressing as quickly as they’d like. They see others, seemingly making great strides in an effortless manner, and think they must be missing a vital ingredient ~ one of the secret keys to success.

In truth, all they’re really missing is some momentum. The good news is that anyone can build it – in time. The bad news is that you can’t ‘magic’ it up.

Here’s the thing though ~ once you’ve built momentum, the effort-reward relationship is reversed. Whilst you’re building it, you put more in than you get out. Once you’re maintaining it, you get more out than you put in. The sad thing is that the great majority of people give up before the transition – disillusioned and confused – just at the point that the wheels are about to really start turning.

If any of this is relevant to your situation right now, a spot of objective analysis is needed. Is there really anything wrong with your business – or is it just a case of waiting for the momentum to take hold. Only you can know for sure.

 John Harrison

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I’ve recently come off the phone with Geoff Thompson (who wrote the Foreword to one of my books), and he told me the fascinating story of how he came to win his BAFTA Award.

Geoff had written a number of books and was keen to get into film, but just couldn’t get any interest. He’d knocked on all the right doors and gone down all the right channels – all to no avail. For whatever reason, he just couldn’t get started.

Anyway, his books were selling well and so he was on a signing tour of bookshops around the country. At one of these signings, he was approached by a young man – not yet out of his teens – who said he was hoping to get into journalism. Geoff gave him some advice and the young man asked whether he could have an interview for an article thar he hoped to sell to a magazine.

Now at this time Geoff was really busy with the tour, but he kept the young man’s details, and when he was visiting a town nearby a few weeks later, invited him over for an hour. The young man stayed for most of the day and in between getting information for the interview, pumped Geoff for more help and advice which he freely gave. No reward was given, and none was asked for.

I’m not sure whether that article ever saw the light of day, but here’s what did happen…

It turned out that the young man’s sister was a film producer. When she heard about Geoff, she contacted him to see whether she could make a documentary about his life. Geoff agreed and she got to know him – and to hear about his other work.

It was then that she asked him if he would like to make a short film. Geoff agreed, and set about creating something. The film was called Bouncer, and was nominated for a BAFTA. That led to another short film, ‘Brown Paper Bag’, which won the best short film award at the BAFTAs. 
 

And it all came about because he took the time to help someone out, with no immediate promise or chance of recompense or reward. This was definitely a case of sending the elevator back down and Geoff got his reward in a totally unexpected way.

To make a big success in anything, you have to get out of the employee mindset – the one that demands a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work (the one that is constantly trying to match effort put in with rewards received). You have to move away from demanding an immediate return for your efforts, and refusing to do ‘something for nothing’.

You have to move towards a more holistic lifetime approach that says effort and reward are rarely in sync ~ that big rewards will come from the most unlikely sources ~ and conversely blood sweat and tears will often leave you empty-handed.

Geoff’s reward did indeed come from a very unlikely source. Big rewards have come from unlikely sources for me too ~ and it can be the same for you as well. But only if you open yourself up to the possibility…

And that can only happen when you stop analysing everything you do for its capacity to deliver instant gratification and recompense, and start doing things because they just seem like the right things to do.

 John Harrison

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