Warum Unternehmertum am meisten persönliche Entwicklung bringt

0:00I see entrepreneurship as the single greatest path for personal development because if if we define you know learning as fast feedback loops, there are very few other you know professions that give you that much feedback that brutally honest brutally honest feedback as the market will do. And so at every point where I get stuck in a business, I think to myself like what skill do I lack? And I define everything by skills. So even traits which is just you know a colloquial term which is really just a bucket of many skills. um I just think okay well in order for me to appear confident or be confident it's really like 38 things that I have to learn and all of these things if I break them down easier I can do them so it's like okay when I shake hands I make sure that I web the the middle of my hand and I squeeze firmly and I look at the person in the eye it's like that's thing one thing two is that when we're talking like you nod because you've been doing this for so long but some people who don't know how to have conversations just stand like this but somebody who's an active listener will nod they'll say oh that's a great point whatever and so it's like that's a second thing when I walk into a room. I'm going to call people by name. It's a third thing. And so when I when I try and think about these traits of who I want to become, it's like can I break these down into actions that I can actually do. And so I think that is that has been a large part of the the growth that I've I've hopefully, you know, been able to uh achieve. But in terms of the ultimate goal for me, it's always just been to be useful.

1:13>> And if I think I just do that, then I like that it's such a simplified goal because being useful has uh it actually includes multiple parties because you cannot be useful unless there's someone else you're being useful to. And so it gives you something controllable which is that I have to learn skills so that I can serve someone else and that is how I can ultimately be useful. And so even when we're you know we're making content or whatever it is that we're putting out I I always try to think like is this useful? Like can someone actually will this change someone's behavior? I like I want to educate. It's like what is education? It just means same condition new behavior. So if someone has had their same day over and over again then they're not learning. So if your day looks the same every single day you have learned nothing. And so that means that if you listen to this podcast and then nothing changes about behavior as a result. this was just entertainment not education and so that has been just it's a very sobering point because you realize oh I have to change my behavior in order to demonstrate that I have learned now the second component of this is like okay well what's intelligence then so intelligence as I define it is rate of learning so how quickly do I change my behavior in the same condition based on some stimulus

2:15>> and so if you you in a very real way you can influence your intelligence by being willing to change faster and so if you've heard 10 podcasts and then you eventually change versus somebody who listens to one and then changes. That person is more intelligent than you are. And so I see that as actually encouraging because it means like, oh my god, I have an active control on how quickly I can learn simply by changing my behavior. And so that has been kind of my my motus operandum for how I how I how I live life. >> Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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