Overcoming limiting beliefs & Misconceptions of the perfect business idea
The truth is: a professional career is not like buying a TV where you can just check all the boxes. It's like dating. You just gotta get out there and get started. Chances are high that your feeling of being overwhelmed or directionless roots in lacking experiences or in approaching it too theoretically. Get inspired from other entrepreneurs' stories about failure and success and let science explain why making decisions is so god damn hard.
Choice paralysis
Waiting for a calling to knock at your door? Here it is!
waiting for the perfect idea
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Making the right decision
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Any hard decision we make will always, by definition, not be perfect.
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- The School of Life
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The world is not looking for another 'me too'; the world wants something as unique as your fingerprint.
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- Mark Soderwall (Creative entrepreneur)
The art of failure
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Any mistake is an income; a wonderful revenue for you.
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- Jack Ma
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If you are afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
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- Kobe Bryant
Inspirational makers
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Stay hungry.
Stay foolish.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. And believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs
JK Rowling
Rowling’s life is the typical rags-to-riches story. She was living as a single mother on benefits before becoming the world's first billionaire author. Rowling completed “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” in 1995. The book was submitted to 12 publishing houses, but not a single one agreed to publish it. “Harry Potter” hit the bookstores only in 1997, and the rest, as they say, is history. Along the way Rowling has learned to appreciate failure.
"I don't think we talk about failure enough. It would've really helped to have someone who had had a measure of success come say to me, 'You will fail. That's inevitable. It's what you do with it'",
she told Matt Lauer on NBC's Today. She considers her early failure a "gift" that was "painfully won", helping her to learn more about herself and her relationships through the difficult times.
Thomas Edison
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“I have not failed 10,000 times—I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”,
Edison once said. Thomas Edison is one of the greatest innovators and cultural figures of modern America. He pioneered the method of technological research and invented electric lighting and the phonograph. In addition, he made major contributions to power generation, motion pictures, and telecommunications.
Some of Edison’s inventions proved unsuccessful, such as the electrographic vote recorder, the electric pen, and the talking doll. But one of his great qualities was that he did not agonise over past failures. Leonard DeGraaf, an archivist at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park who wrote a book on the inventor called “Edison and the Rise of Innovation”, says: “Edison is not a guy that looks back. Even for his biggest failures he didn’t spend a lot of time wringing his hands and saying ‘Oh my God, we spent a fortune on that.’”
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Failure is a major part of entrepreneurial success. Its value is the gift of learning that empowers you to never stop pursuing your dreams. Just look around: the world is full inspiring stories. Today, entrepreneurship is all around us and is much needed in the corporate world as well for social welfare.