You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The Value of Consistency and Perseverance
Gee, I read a post a few minutes ago about how to be a successful entrepreneur and it said you have to have an enthusiastic spirit and take risks.
Somehow I think yours might be the better advice.
Consistency, perseverance and an insatiable appetite for studying the field you're trying to entrepreneur yourself into.
And then work your ass off.
The "secrets" and "magic formulas" have been available for a long time, I think most people don't want to work that hard though.
If you're lucky, you'll have been kicked out of the job world and you either sink or swim so you've got good motivation.
But it's not fun, exciting or glamorous, you know, like it is on TV.
There are pros and cons to both of those kinds of attributes. Enthusiastic spirit can definitely drive home your finer points to angle inverters and get employees on board in a startup. It can also lead you to have tunnel vision and being blindsided. There is a big difference between taking a risk and understanding the opportunity risk presents. Sure if you're a youtuber and you skydive out of an airplane with no parachute on you will get lots of views from your death-- you are also dead.
Both of these attributes can result in great success, but can also cause you to overshoot and miss the target altogether. Often times people let greed get the better of them. It's more about creating, and taking advantage of the opportunity you find in life. Even something with very little risk can yield far better long term results than a high-risk opportunity. These things are rather complex issues entrepreneurs face every day.
To me, saying "you have to have an enthusiastic spirit and take risks" sounds like something a 26 year old college grad who sells iPhone cases out of a kiosk would write after having read it in Cosmo.
Or someone trying to sell you on a program based on “enthusiastic spirit and risk taking” Where oddly enough you feel like you learned nothing. The program was them over selling it with their enthusiastic spirit, and a dumb risk of someone buying it hoping it leads somewhere hehe.
I'm not suggesting my way is always right @theblindsquirl, but they have served me well, as they have for others I have known.
Risk taking and enthusiasm are important, too. But I tend to apply those to the confines of a carefully defined space. If it involves developing my specific expertise, I might take some risks there... but I'm not going to suddenly jump from writing to having taco stand, just because it sounded like "the hot deal of the day."
It's definitely not as exciting or glamorous as they show on TV!
I somehow believe that your suggestions have a lot more "real world" experience behind them than some of the other posts I've seen lately @denmarkguy. ;-)