Saved by Stuart Evans
You Can Handle Much More Than You Think
When you learn something new for the first time you flail miserably at it, but eventually you identify your weaknesses and over time the process toward solution becomes almost instinctual. Things get better and easier, and somehow you’ve developed into this whole new person who could do the hard things you once dreaded, now effortlessly. I find thi... See more
all these things that I've done
It’s generally much easier to be a creator today than ever.
But there’s one big reason I don’t envy the people getting started in their online-solopreneur-creating-things journey today:
Expectations.
I’ve been doing this for about a decade, and when I started, it was significantly harder to build an audience.
There were no highly optimized entertain... See more
But there’s one big reason I don’t envy the people getting started in their online-solopreneur-creating-things journey today:
Expectations.
I’ve been doing this for about a decade, and when I started, it was significantly harder to build an audience.
There were no highly optimized entertain... See more
Nat Eliason • It's Still a Long Game
Luc Cheung added
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it 10 years. A long game will compound small gains that will be able to overcome even big mistakes.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
Prashant Patel and added
Can’t anticipate what life after kids will be like. Feels like the important thing is to not cling to the specific of your pre-kid life. You can’t expect certain habits or certain parts of your life to continue through exactly as it. Be open to the details, and just bring the same spirit, and the things that matter will find new form.
Michael Dean added
Luc Cheung and added
Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
If you... See more
If you... See more
Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
kev and added