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**ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Expectations vs Reality**
**Expectation:** If I join the Fastlane INSIDERS, I'll learn so much valuable information and get rich.
**Reality:** No amount of information will save me. Knowledge is useless unless you apply it. Execution is the only thing that will get you there. The "boring" stuff will make you rich.
Business is a collection of boring tasks, each like a puzzle piece. From creating an email address to designing a product, learning to market it, doing cold calls, conducting market research, testing ads, and analyzing results to making a sale.
It's really the boring stuff that makes it work. IT'S THE DOING, folks. You already know enough, which I wish I had known three years ago. The most important knowledge comes from experience, from real-life testing, doing, creating, and trials and errors.
You can't read that in a book (more or less).
You never know what you need to know until you START DOING. Until you put your product into the market, you'll never see the full picture.
Take each step at a time. Problems will come up; solve them one at a time.
I always think about going through a forest at night with a small flashlight. You can't see further without taking steps and walking.
Even if the business fails, try to minimize the cost until the concept is proven by strangers giving you money.
If it fails, at least you'll have some straight-up real-life business experience that you can't read about, and that's part of you now.
Imagine someone telling you how it feels to spar in boxing versus you putting the gloves on and doing it yourself. How much more would you know that way? Now imagine doing it for a year.
Most of the books I read didn't help me much. Of course, *Unscripted * and *Millionaire Fastlane * helped me a ton, but even some parts I couldn't absorb, understand, or memorize because I wasn't ready for the information or it didn't click at that time.
Really living it and then rereading some parts of the book made me realize that I missed so much value.
That's my observation.
Don't rely too much on information. Go do something.
You don't know how to do XYZ? Go watch a video on YouTube or hire someone cheap.
Business is really a skill, and you can only learn it by doing it and playing the game. Effort, time, experience, and repetition.
You don't need the perfect business to start. Make 100 bucks first. You'll learn so much more instead of mentally masturbating about becoming rich and waiting for the perfect idea or business.
**Expectation:** If I join the Fastlane INSIDERS, I'll learn so much valuable information and get rich.
**Reality:** No amount of information will save me. Knowledge is useless unless you apply it. Execution is the only thing that will get you there. The "boring" stuff will make you rich.
Business is a collection of boring tasks, each like a puzzle piece. From creating an email address to designing a product, learning to market it, doing cold calls, conducting market research, testing ads, and analyzing results to making a sale.
It's really the boring stuff that makes it work. IT'S THE DOING, folks. You already know enough, which I wish I had known three years ago. The most important knowledge comes from experience, from real-life testing, doing, creating, and trials and errors.
You can't read that in a book (more or less).
You never know what you need to know until you START DOING. Until you put your product into the market, you'll never see the full picture.
Take each step at a time. Problems will come up; solve them one at a time.
I always think about going through a forest at night with a small flashlight. You can't see further without taking steps and walking.
Even if the business fails, try to minimize the cost until the concept is proven by strangers giving you money.
If it fails, at least you'll have some straight-up real-life business experience that you can't read about, and that's part of you now.
Imagine someone telling you how it feels to spar in boxing versus you putting the gloves on and doing it yourself. How much more would you know that way? Now imagine doing it for a year.
Most of the books I read didn't help me much. Of course, *Unscripted * and *Millionaire Fastlane * helped me a ton, but even some parts I couldn't absorb, understand, or memorize because I wasn't ready for the information or it didn't click at that time.
Really living it and then rereading some parts of the book made me realize that I missed so much value.
That's my observation.
Don't rely too much on information. Go do something.
You don't know how to do XYZ? Go watch a video on YouTube or hire someone cheap.
Business is really a skill, and you can only learn it by doing it and playing the game. Effort, time, experience, and repetition.
You don't need the perfect business to start. Make 100 bucks first. You'll learn so much more instead of mentally masturbating about becoming rich and waiting for the perfect idea or business.
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