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Hey Fastlane!
I'm someone. Allow me to introduce myself. Im 20, from Germany (please excuse my english) and soon going to attend College. I grew up relatively poor (financial- and socialwise). I always knew money would only make me to a certain degree happy, which fueled my fear of forcing myself to fit society and fall victim to mediocracy and Mon thru Fri.
I'd like to unfold my story. Maybe some of you who can relate in some aspects can learn from it.
I always felt like i had this entrepreneurial-vein. Even before knowing the word itself.
It began with early Highschool i realized all this party-going, drug-consuming and dick-comparing with status-objects on social platforms wasn't making me happy (but my friends tho). That's where my computer began to consume my time. Killing my valuable time with Games.. unfunny repetitive memes on Reddit and ..(on the opposite side of the usefulness spectrum) problem solving. As soon as the pleasure and dopamine kick of gaming wore down i just looked for ways to improve efficiency and program away random inconveniences. It just felt good creating something of value for me. And i wanted to share it.
But i made a huge mistake. I looked for validation on Reddit. Even tho it resulted in huge successes and thousands of validating supporters it had one drawback. I didn't finish any of those projects. Probably because of the phenomenon where you lose interest in continuing because you already gathered all the appreciation (i know this has a name but i forgot it). This and other are probably the reason why i wouldn't see a penny out of it even if i wanted.
Even tho i didn't make any money it felt like i struck entrepreneurial gold. I had something a lot of people saw value in. (Just that all this was basically at a small scale of what the real life would require.)
Which two needs did i have the chance to fill? I created a fictional logo. And asked the 111.000 user big community if they'd like to have it turned into a complete font-family. This thread is still at the top of the forum/community to this day with 1.700 upvotes (the highest of all threads) and a total of 300.000 people addressed/views. I still get messaged to this day when it will be released.
Now comes a weirder story. I played a lot of a popular military simulation game. It had the capabilities of scripting and i learned it by solving it problem to problem basis. At that time the battle royale genre just started gaining traction. I have seen a useful feature in the games of this new genre. It was a compass-UI element. I created the same element as an addon in the military simulation. i asked the community of the military simulation if they'd see a value in an addon that added this feature. I was confronted with a lot of resistance mainly from the hardcore fans (the minority). But you know what i did? I still developed and delivered it. On my second try of approaching the community i got the exact opposite reaction (the casual players). I basically received ~600 upvotes (a lot in context of this small community) and a total of 50.000 people addressed/views. When i finally published my addon it gained a total of 12.000 subscribers. But what flashed me the most is that i got access to exclusive people in the scene. I got contact to big Influencer personalities in this genre. It now just was up to me what i would do with this big opportunities. I even got contacted by a real military software developer and got asked for advice (the gamestudio also creates software for all countries militaries for real life full scale military operation simulation. VBS engine)
I dont care about the upvotes or the downloads. Its just numbers for me. What i like to see is the value i created (for this niche/community/the people).
Attention!: All what i have written here is experienced in a small niche! What i want to say is, success is not some kind of black magic like i thought before reading the book and experiencing these experiences. Creating value on global scale is way harder and requires more creativity and real hard work. But its not something that is not accomplishable! I hate that people put having wealth and success with something that is not realizable like being a taller person or having luck.
Theres just a problem i see in all this. I often catch myself action-faking. not just a little bit but a lot. I also procrastinate a lot. Probably because i live day to day and don't have a real goal in life. It once was owning a Lamborghini but since i read the book i don't have a reason for that either. For what do i need a Lamborghini. To flex in front of all people i don't care the opinions about? If i'd like to experience the thrill of the speed i just rent it for a day, drive 300 over the autobahn and appreciate its form of art. Owning it wouldn't just cost me thousands in a month, it would also get boring really fast..
Take from this read what you want.
I seriously have to thank you MJ DeMarco. You simply gave all my suspicions i had a name. Words. To connect the dots. And understand the world a lot better. You gave me value and i appreciate paying for it. Even if its not going to make me a millionaire. You opened my eyes and said things that are worth to live by. For a charitable price.
Kind regards,
someone.
I'm someone. Allow me to introduce myself. Im 20, from Germany (please excuse my english) and soon going to attend College. I grew up relatively poor (financial- and socialwise). I always knew money would only make me to a certain degree happy, which fueled my fear of forcing myself to fit society and fall victim to mediocracy and Mon thru Fri.
I'd like to unfold my story. Maybe some of you who can relate in some aspects can learn from it.
I always felt like i had this entrepreneurial-vein. Even before knowing the word itself.
It began with early Highschool i realized all this party-going, drug-consuming and dick-comparing with status-objects on social platforms wasn't making me happy (but my friends tho). That's where my computer began to consume my time. Killing my valuable time with Games.. unfunny repetitive memes on Reddit and ..(on the opposite side of the usefulness spectrum) problem solving. As soon as the pleasure and dopamine kick of gaming wore down i just looked for ways to improve efficiency and program away random inconveniences. It just felt good creating something of value for me. And i wanted to share it.
But i made a huge mistake. I looked for validation on Reddit. Even tho it resulted in huge successes and thousands of validating supporters it had one drawback. I didn't finish any of those projects. Probably because of the phenomenon where you lose interest in continuing because you already gathered all the appreciation (i know this has a name but i forgot it). This and other are probably the reason why i wouldn't see a penny out of it even if i wanted.
Even tho i didn't make any money it felt like i struck entrepreneurial gold. I had something a lot of people saw value in. (Just that all this was basically at a small scale of what the real life would require.)
Which two needs did i have the chance to fill? I created a fictional logo. And asked the 111.000 user big community if they'd like to have it turned into a complete font-family. This thread is still at the top of the forum/community to this day with 1.700 upvotes (the highest of all threads) and a total of 300.000 people addressed/views. I still get messaged to this day when it will be released.
Now comes a weirder story. I played a lot of a popular military simulation game. It had the capabilities of scripting and i learned it by solving it problem to problem basis. At that time the battle royale genre just started gaining traction. I have seen a useful feature in the games of this new genre. It was a compass-UI element. I created the same element as an addon in the military simulation. i asked the community of the military simulation if they'd see a value in an addon that added this feature. I was confronted with a lot of resistance mainly from the hardcore fans (the minority). But you know what i did? I still developed and delivered it. On my second try of approaching the community i got the exact opposite reaction (the casual players). I basically received ~600 upvotes (a lot in context of this small community) and a total of 50.000 people addressed/views. When i finally published my addon it gained a total of 12.000 subscribers. But what flashed me the most is that i got access to exclusive people in the scene. I got contact to big Influencer personalities in this genre. It now just was up to me what i would do with this big opportunities. I even got contacted by a real military software developer and got asked for advice (the gamestudio also creates software for all countries militaries for real life full scale military operation simulation. VBS engine)
I dont care about the upvotes or the downloads. Its just numbers for me. What i like to see is the value i created (for this niche/community/the people).
Attention!: All what i have written here is experienced in a small niche! What i want to say is, success is not some kind of black magic like i thought before reading the book and experiencing these experiences. Creating value on global scale is way harder and requires more creativity and real hard work. But its not something that is not accomplishable! I hate that people put having wealth and success with something that is not realizable like being a taller person or having luck.
Theres just a problem i see in all this. I often catch myself action-faking. not just a little bit but a lot. I also procrastinate a lot. Probably because i live day to day and don't have a real goal in life. It once was owning a Lamborghini but since i read the book i don't have a reason for that either. For what do i need a Lamborghini. To flex in front of all people i don't care the opinions about? If i'd like to experience the thrill of the speed i just rent it for a day, drive 300 over the autobahn and appreciate its form of art. Owning it wouldn't just cost me thousands in a month, it would also get boring really fast..
Take from this read what you want.
I seriously have to thank you MJ DeMarco. You simply gave all my suspicions i had a name. Words. To connect the dots. And understand the world a lot better. You gave me value and i appreciate paying for it. Even if its not going to make me a millionaire. You opened my eyes and said things that are worth to live by. For a charitable price.
Kind regards,
someone.
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