Warum Business mit der Zeit nicht schwerer wird

0:00I think a hopeful message that anyone can think about who's about who's in that hard period or in that start period is that it won't get harder. Like this is the hardest part. And so if you can just make it through this everything else is downhill. It's not that the things that you're the dragons are going to slay are going to get bigger, they are, but you become so much more equipped to slay them back and you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you.

0:28You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But in the beginning it's just you with a stick against a bear. And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you. And so it's not even like the the size of the hardship, it's just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have which is time because you have no leverage. You don't have the money to pay other people to help you.

0:57You don't have the resources to go like get someone to to No one can learn it for you. It's like there's a lot of the things that that we care about a lot like no one can work out for you. Doesn't matter how much money you have. No one can learn skills for you. And so in the early days like it feels so painful cuz you're like you look around to see who can help you and then you're like [ __ ] it's me again. And I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things kind of like Slumdog Millionaire if you've seen that movie where he I'll give you the TLDR. He goes through his entire life of randomness and then he gets on a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire version in India and it has 12 questions to make a million dollars. And from only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win.

1:42The skills that you develop along the way like Steve Jobs learning calligraphy that then became Apple fonts that you know transformed how we type. Those early days that little trench winning in the weeds often times gives you these huge advantages later on because you've more context than anyone else. And so rather than lament them and hate the fact that you're going through it, remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you're going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons.

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