Posts

Showing posts with the label hard work

The Entrepreneurship Lie?

Image
I was looking for a nice story to begin this article with but I digress. The situation is too dire to start with entertainment so I will go about it like how we administer an injection to an adult. Fast and swift and hopefully only briefly painful. Bear with me.  You have to throw away all the romantic origin stories you have heard about Great ideas and companies. Yes, some of the stories actually sound like fairytales especially those made into best selling books, docu series and movies. That is television and showbiz. Do this instead.  Research extensively and read lots of verified and accurate biographies and memoirs. Read verified articles and lots of different books. I guarantee that, you will be delivered from your "pie in the sky" illusions. The kind of hard work, networking, PURE LUCK, privilege, bias, unexplained grace, shenanigans and what nots involved will make you born again in your mind. Look, you are probably not going to experience a Eureka moment ...

Entrepreneur? You Sure?

ENTREPRENEUR? YOU SURE?* Throw away all the romantic origin stories you have heard about Great ideas and companies. Research extensively and read lots of accurate biographies. Read articles and lots of different books. You will be delivered from your "pie in the sky" fairytale desires. The kind of hard work, networking, PURE LUCK, privilege, bias unexplained grave and what nots involved will make you born again in your mind. Look, you are probably not going to experience a Eureka moment and come up with the next multi billion dollar company. You will go through thousands of half baked and ridiculous ideas and so many roadblocks to make your head spin and ache. It is going to take sweat, grit, blockheadedness, perseverance, giving up and coming back up, getting depressed and even suicidal, experiencing deep pain and hopelessness, sleeping scared and having nightmares and so many other things most successful people or their close cousins, motivational speakers, won't tell y...