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There are two kinds of people in the world--the people that build the future, and the people who write posts on the internet about why they'll fail". Keep trying to be in former category. The people who have said there is nothing new left to do in the world have been wrong every time. Don't let their lack of imagination hold you back. The best start-ups take a long time to be recognized as good. Go read the things people wrote about Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, etc. in their first few years of existence. Overnight success usually takes a decade of uphill work. “I will fail many times, and I will be really right once” is the entrepreneurs’ way. You have to give yourself a lot of chances to get lucky. One of the most powerful lessons to learn is that you can figure out what to do in situations that seem to have no solution. The more times you do this, the more you will believe it. Grit comes from learning you can get back up after you get knocked down. It’s important to be in the right kind of environment, and around the right kind of people. You want to be around people who have a good feel for the future, will entertain improbable plans, are optimistic, are smart in a creative way, and have a very high idea flux. These sorts of people tend to think without the constraints most people have, not have a lot of filters, and not care too much what other people think. The best ideas are fragile; most people don’t even start talking about them at all because they sound silly. Perhaps most of all, you want to be around people who don’t make you feel stupid for mentioning a bad idea, and who certainly never feel stupid for doing so themselves. A good test for an idea is if you can articulate why most people think it’s a bad idea, but you understand what makes it good. Finally, unless the world ends soon, the most valuable company the world will ever see has not yet been started. Comments are closed.
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