Entrepreneurship is a real-life RPG (and I'm finally having fun)

[heysander]

Today I had an epiphany. Entrepreneurship == self-development. As I grow so does my business grow along. So if I don't grow, my business will stagnate…

MJ writes about this. I've read it recently in a re-run and thought yeah so true. But today it hit on a deeper note. I've built most of my identity around the Unscripted lifestyle, but knowing it and feeling it are two different things.

Everything clicks. All my past experiences built the base for this. Every growth spurt shows me more potential. The vision of what it can become (life-changing machine), feels like being in love. Full CENTS, worth every ounce of creative energy. It demands my best.

So why this epiphany:

Today a lead that we are onboarding into the platform reached out with product feedback. He told me he used to work in IT (now sells his passion online and uses our software). He had strong opinions about how we should change certain parts of the product.

My first instinct was defense. "How dare he tell me whats best. It's my baby". Then I realized its not my product anymore. I manage / curate it, but ownership lies in the market using it. I own the business. Perfect division if you ask me.

So I shut up. Thanked him and gave him credits for causing a creative discussion about his topics for potential product improvement.

Will we implement it? Maybe not. But he felt heard. That's worth more than being right.

A few years ago I would have argued. Defended. Needed to be right. Probably lost the customer. Today I didn't. +1 skill point.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Nz gostv optvopdv xet figipti. "Jux fesi ji vimm ni xjevt citv. Ov't nz cecz". Vjip O siemobif ovt puv nz qsufadv epznusi. O nepehi / dasevi ov, cav uxpistjoq moit op vji nesliv atoph ov. O uxp vji catopitt. Qisgidv fowotoup og zua etl ni.

Vjot ot nevasovz.

Pevasem ihu figipti ot vu tez "g-zua" cav vjot vzqi ug giifcedl, gsun atist (us qezoph atist) ot johj-wemai opvimmohipdi.

Qiuqmi dunqmeop vu ni emm vji voni ecuav vji gusan mezuav ... O fup'v eshai, O tez "Zie, O ehsii et O'n emxezt up vji muul uav gus e nusi gietocmi tumavoup"

Umf qistqidvowi: Vjot haz ot gamm ug tjov.
Pix qistqidvowi: Vjot haz ot howoph ni gsii atis vitvoph giifcedl, gus pu djeshi!

 

[Wardy]

Vjot tiint vu ci nutv qiuqmit' figeamv evvovafi, O fup'v lpux og ov't gsun mowoph vji nekusovz ug feomz mogi op vji idju djencis ug emhusovjnt;

"Jisi't tuni giifcedl, zua duamf eqqsuedj ov vjot xez"
"Ziej O lpux, O emxezt neli tasi O .....cmej cmej"

Vjiz esi geomoph, xovj izit epf iest dmutif, cav vjiz dep hu epzxjisi up vji opvispiv vu gopf tuniupi gsun vji muxis sapht up vji meffis vu vimm vjin vjiz esi fuoph katv xupfisgammz.