These are my own, rather nonstandard thoughts, so I invite feedback and/or correction.
According to my own observations, both via the media and through people I have known personally, it appears that it is rare that an entrepreneur’s very first attempt at business becomes a colossal success. It is much more typical that the entrepreneur will take at least one and sometimes several tries to really break out. Some of these tries may end in abject failure.
As we all know, people are generally risk-averse to an irrational degree, and self-identify with failure to an even more irrational degree. So the personalities who “stupidly” keep trying to be entrepreneurs even after all evidence indicates that they are bad at being entrepreneurs are perversely the people who end up being astonishing successes. They are gaining experience, they are making connections, they are learning how to psychologically deal with the stresses of entrepreneurship, so over time they become gradually better. Then, boom, “miraculous” success.
We also know that endless planning in the face of uncertainty is a common human failure mode. I am not saying that reading these books is a waste of time, but I am saying that there will never be a point at which you have read enough books. Or taken enough courses. I think you just have to go out and start failing.
These are my own, rather nonstandard thoughts, so I invite feedback and/or correction.
According to my own observations, both via the media and through people I have known personally, it appears that it is rare that an entrepreneur’s very first attempt at business becomes a colossal success. It is much more typical that the entrepreneur will take at least one and sometimes several tries to really break out. Some of these tries may end in abject failure.
As we all know, people are generally risk-averse to an irrational degree, and self-identify with failure to an even more irrational degree. So the personalities who “stupidly” keep trying to be entrepreneurs even after all evidence indicates that they are bad at being entrepreneurs are perversely the people who end up being astonishing successes. They are gaining experience, they are making connections, they are learning how to psychologically deal with the stresses of entrepreneurship, so over time they become gradually better. Then, boom, “miraculous” success.
We also know that endless planning in the face of uncertainty is a common human failure mode. I am not saying that reading these books is a waste of time, but I am saying that there will never be a point at which you have read enough books. Or taken enough courses. I think you just have to go out and start failing.