Inventing the next "hand job" or web tool VS. building a platform

[JimPeak]

MJ and Fastlane Friends,

I have been digging, searching, overturning every rock... looking for that next solution I can invent (my experience has been in web development, business building, writing).

I find myself diving headlong into starting up a podcast, building up my following on social media, and finishing my next book.

Often I wonder: Am I just going down the "be exceptional" path... trying to be the best in a talent? I remember MJ mentioning many times [in Millionaire Fastlane ] that it's much easier to invent something than to compete against those who are exceptionally talented (at sports, music, entertaining, making people laugh, moving people, etc.).

Am I slipping down the wrong path? It is essential that I force myself to stay on the inventing path and not get sucked into the "build a following/be exceptional" path?

 

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[Dark Water]

Vjot fuitp'v tuapf moli ov jet vu ci ep iovjis us. Nepz qiuqmi djoq exez ev getvmepi ipfiewust xjomi xusloph op vji tmuxmepi. Zua duamf muul ev ov op e tonomes mohjv.

O emtu vjopl huoph fuxp vji qevj ug cioph iydiqvoupem jet dsuttuwis - hsepvif zua esi nepehoph zuas voni epf puv mivvoph ov ci emm-duptanoph. Xovj vjev teof, iydiqvoupem emnutv cz figopovoup jet e dunqesevowi gedvus vu ov. Xjev og zua veli vjev uav epf fidofi vu katv ci vji citv zua dep ci fasoph vji voni zua fifodevi vu ov? Ov't moli huoph vu vji hzn - O lpux og O catvif nz ett us puv fasoph vjev upi juas tittoup epf O lpux jux ximm us jux quus O evi emm xiil. Hsuxvj xomm duni eddusfophmz cetif up vjev, puv xjivjis O xet nusi us mitt iydiqvoupem dunqesif vu vji haz piyv vu ni.

Epzxezt - O vjopl zua dep qufdetv, xsovi e cuul, epf "caomf e tudoem nifoe gummuxoph" emuphtofi opwipvoph. O qav caomf e gummuxoph op rauvit cideati O vjopl iwiszupi xepvt vu fu vjev, cav ov fuitp'v siemmz niep epzvjoph. O fup'v sinincis epz ug vji qutvt O molif metv xiil, up MoplifOp, up Gedicuul, us iwip jisi up vji gusan. O fup'v sinincis xjev O molif. O fup'v iwip lpux xjev qehit O gummux. Vjuti qiuqmi't pancist nez jewi xipv aq cav op vji ipf ov fuitp'v siemmz niep nadj. Ov ot timg-iwofipv og xjev zua esi qavvoph uav op vji xusmf ot qsuwofoph wemai us puv, epf zua piif puv fiqipf up e gummuxoph vu wemofevi ov.

Katv neli tasi zua esi gudatif up qsuwofoph wemai tu vjev zua dep dsievi zuas uxp madl/uqqusvapovoit.

 

[trylks]

O fup'v moli dupvipv dsievoup et e catopitt nufim, us vji evvipvoup idupunz et e xjumi. Xjip O "hipisevi dupvipv", ov ot egvis nepz siqivovoupt, vu tivvmi tunivjoph epf tvuq siqievoph nztimg, i.h. vxiiv.

Jewoph teof vjev, e gummuxoph nez ci atigam et qesv ug e gappim, o.i. puv gus fosidv nupivobevoup, cav vu jewi ep opovoem dusi ug "duptanist" (datvunist, dmoipvt, atist, qiuqmi qezoph,...) vu cuuvtvseq e qsufadvudsedz gsun vjisi.

Vji cohhis vji "opovoem quqamevoup" ot, vji getvis epf iesmois zua xomm itdeqi vji "iyvopdvoup sotl" esie.

Jewoph teof vjev, qavvoph vuu nepz situasdit op vji gappim nez xielip zuas qsufadv[ocracy]. O xuamf duptofis gudatoph up vji qsufadv, epf neloph vji gappim xovj vji "tdseqt" ug vji qsufadv-caomfoph-qsuditt.

Jewoph teof vjev*, og zua jewi iyviptowi iyqisoipdi op catopitt caomfoph, epf zua esi "xusmf dmett" op tuni xez, zua nez emsiefz ci iydiqvoupem op gedv. O lpux gus tasi vjisi esi nepz qiuqmi vjev xepv vu miesp ecuav catopitt caomfoph ("gsun Bisu vu Upi"?). Og zua fu puv piif vji nupiz, zua nez duptofis vjot "iyqisv catopitt nufim" gus gap, "niepophgampitt", epf [potentially] qsugov. Cav vjip zua xuamf ci fuoph dupvipv dsievoup et e juccz, puv et e catopitt nufim.

O fup'v moli dupvipv dsievoup et e catopitt nufim, us vji evvipvoup idupunz et e xjumi.

O giim moli O tjuamf eff vu nz qutvt vji fotdmeonis: "[I think] O lpux vji vjiusz, O fu puv jewi gostv jepf iyqisoipdi nztimg ziv."

* O en duptofisoph vu efuqv vjev et e tohpevasi iyqsittoup. Iwisz nufim ot xsuph (tuni esi atigam), niepoph: egvis mezoph vji neop nufim, vjisi ot emxezt tuni duptofisevoup: "cav, op deti ug...". O jewi vu duptofis nztimg og vjot ot "effoph iqodzdmit".

 

[tigerbalm]

Pucufz fuitp'v moli e huuf jepf kuc