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I genuinely didn't understand your point and asked you to elaborate, then presented my opinion.
Does that make me arrogant?
Everyone is giving practical advice to progress as an entrepreneur and you're telling a 17 year old to learn "operations" and "capitalization" without elaborating.
You are probably facing limiting beliefs when you say that you "need X to do Y".
It feels like that, that you must become an engineer to own an engineering company. Or that you must become a programmer to create the next tech breakthrough on the "internet".
It's the same limited thinking that most people get stuck with when it comes to money and wealth.
We often think and give advice to others "make the money, then you can start a business".
Questions I have to counter that are simple:
- Why does it have to be your money?
- Why does it have to be your technical skill?
I promise you this, you will get the experience you need right after you needed it.
Hello, I am 17 years old and I want to start a business in the next 3-4 years. Since I currently dont have the capital and I go to college, I cannot start a business. Therefore, I want to learn a skill or two that will help me in the future. I would really be delighted if you can suggest some skills to learn that will help me in the future. I thought of learning coding but unfortunately I dont have a good device that supports the coding apps and etc. So please suggest me some skills to learn!
Here are some goals worth striving for:
- Freedom of Time
- Freedom of Money
- Freedom of Relationship
- Freedom of Purpose
To get there think of evolution. Evolution works by trial and error, not by planning.
The skills you want should emerge not from advice on an Internet forum with bickering members (with all the respect I have for those who do great things in life!). It should come from your own experimentation, trial and error.
When you try to do something but can't we discover missing skills and start filling those gaps. That's why you will get the experience you need right after you needed it.
The point is to learn how to build WEALTH.
What is the difference between money and wealth?
Money is just a means of transporting wealth.
Wealth is not limited and it is creating from nothing and has no bounds.
For example, as software programmer can create a new app that is truly valuable, it takes away nothing from the world, nothing from the society but it makes wealth.
The programmer wealthier because he or she can sell it as a service or a product.
The whole world is wealthier because now more people have access to a useful program that is valuable to everybody. It did not take away anything from anyone.
From that perspective, there is no limit to wealth. It is a way of creating something, inventing something. This concept applies to everything, including high end art which has more of a subjective value.
Your question is very general because you are young and looking for steps to success. It's frustrating to hear that there are no direct steps, just like evolution does't have direct steps.
In summary: start doing things. You will quickly discover missing skills. Fill those gaps. Continue to experiment and gain new skills. What can you do today that would bring value to someone else (help them) so much they'd be willing to pay you?
Edit:
A quote to help you see it another way
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. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
— STEVE JOBS
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