I don’t think this is a bad question. It’s just worded simply.
You’re asking as a first business is it better to pursue ‘potentiality’ or ‘quickness’
Should you hold out and do the business where it will take many years and you could build a large enterprise and it’s a great idea….
Or should you just do the first thing that makes you any money at all….
And that’s not an easy question.
I would answer like this…
There is something called the fog of war.
You don’t see anything, and you only see more as you move through it.
You might see this picture and think the paths connect. Maybe they do. Maybe they don’t. You know afterwards.
In business and life, you have a giant fog that is cleared away through action.
You can sit in one spot, draw out a perfect map, spend 10 years on it, and it’s worth less than toilet paper after 5 minutes of traveling because it was based on guessing and bad information.
That would be like locking someone in a room for their whole life, never having them cook a single dish, and then write a recipe book. It would be trash.
You need action to clear away the fog. You will gain information. This is why people change. Why businesses change. Why ideas change. New information.
So keep an open mind, recognize your ignorance, and get your feet wet. On something. Anything.
You will gain more information.
Once you have enough information, a vision starts to form. Once you have a vision, things will fall into place and you’ll see the path. Then you must apply rigorous sustained effort and good decision making for a long time to actualize it.
But at first you will blindly stumble through, clearing out the fog, learning your lessons.
So you should take a halfway decent idea and grow some nuts and try to get money selling it to people.
Then you learn, get more info, adjust, and keep going. Maybe a new business or just a new angle.
The best way to do well is to be a naturally curious person with a sense of pride.
If you are curious, when you have free time you’ll be learning. You’ll naturally have a sharp creative brain that’s lethal at solving problems and that’s what being in business is about.
If you have a sense of pride you will not tolerate anything less than the best. The best of yourself. The best of your goals. The best of your company. The best.
So combining by curiosity and standards, and applying it to a business over a long period of time, you will be a wise and successful businessman.
But you have to get started immediately, no waiting around for a perfect idea, you aren’t equipped to have them yet, you’re just a dumb newbie like all of us were/are.
You’re asking as a first business is it better to pursue ‘potentiality’ or ‘quickness’
Should you hold out and do the business where it will take many years and you could build a large enterprise and it’s a great idea….
Or should you just do the first thing that makes you any money at all….
And that’s not an easy question.
I would answer like this…
There is something called the fog of war.
You don’t see anything, and you only see more as you move through it.
You might see this picture and think the paths connect. Maybe they do. Maybe they don’t. You know afterwards.
In business and life, you have a giant fog that is cleared away through action.
You can sit in one spot, draw out a perfect map, spend 10 years on it, and it’s worth less than toilet paper after 5 minutes of traveling because it was based on guessing and bad information.
That would be like locking someone in a room for their whole life, never having them cook a single dish, and then write a recipe book. It would be trash.
You need action to clear away the fog. You will gain information. This is why people change. Why businesses change. Why ideas change. New information.
So keep an open mind, recognize your ignorance, and get your feet wet. On something. Anything.
You will gain more information.
Once you have enough information, a vision starts to form. Once you have a vision, things will fall into place and you’ll see the path. Then you must apply rigorous sustained effort and good decision making for a long time to actualize it.
But at first you will blindly stumble through, clearing out the fog, learning your lessons.
So you should take a halfway decent idea and grow some nuts and try to get money selling it to people.
Then you learn, get more info, adjust, and keep going. Maybe a new business or just a new angle.
The best way to do well is to be a naturally curious person with a sense of pride.
If you are curious, when you have free time you’ll be learning. You’ll naturally have a sharp creative brain that’s lethal at solving problems and that’s what being in business is about.
If you have a sense of pride you will not tolerate anything less than the best. The best of yourself. The best of your goals. The best of your company. The best.
So combining by curiosity and standards, and applying it to a business over a long period of time, you will be a wise and successful businessman.
But you have to get started immediately, no waiting around for a perfect idea, you aren’t equipped to have them yet, you’re just a dumb newbie like all of us were/are.