Andy Black
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I was going to say this before but forgot: Getting a world record is winner-takes-all. Getting the Olympic gold is winner-takes-all. Business mostly isn't winner-takes-all and often isn't even a zero-sum game.I think business is a lot different than sports.
You can't accidentally become a F1 driver or the worlds best soccer player.
The rules are so defined and the competition so intense.
People train their whole lives to compete against someone else for the exact same prize, under the exact same conditions. You aren't going to have much "luck" since every small margin is already well mapped out.
But business has so many gaps. Markets and demands are always changing and new opportunities open all the time.
The first "online success" person I ever met was this dude in South America. And he was a total disaster.
He was late 20's, had a drinking problem, and would always get us kicked out of bars. If you think of elite focus and discipline... this was not it. (Still a super fun and legit dude).
But he had still succeeded. He taken a course on software ideas, had made a basic software that did animations for businesses, and had put it online for affiliates to team up with him.
And it absolutely crushed it. Did like $5-6m sales in two years.
Right product at the right time to a hungry new audience who wanted to buy.
This is why I think the analogy of the gum ball machine is so fitting. It is 50% just showing up day after day and putting in the work to make something succeed. To me that isn't "elite", it is grit.
Can a bunch of personal work help? Of course.
Is it needed to win... not at all.
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