What do y'all think about this?
I think it's a little bit of both.
You got two sides of the spectrum. Guys like Gary V who say that entrepreneurship is something that cannot be taught, he uses the LeBron James example often. Everybody can go out there and play basketball, but not everybody is gonna play ball like LeBron or Michael Jordan. And that's true, unless you're 6'7-6'8, have a 40 inch+ vertical and weigh 240 pounds then you're not gonna play like LeBron. Or Micahel who was almost 6'5, has huge hands and could palm the basketball easily and had a 45-46 inch vertical too. Same can be said about football/soccer because I used to be one not so long ago. Not everybody is gonna play like Messi or Ronaldinho. At the same time though, it's a physical sport and genes and muscle memory plays a huge role here. Growing up, I was an average athlete. Once I got to high school, I've gotten pretty athletic with very little training, probably because of puberty. And then once I started weight lifting, running and dropped some bodyfat, my athleticism went through the roof. I was always the most athletic, fastest guy on every team I've played on. This is not to brag but it's to give you some context.
I've seen some guys in the gym who've been there ever since I started and they've grown nothing. They look almost the same as I did when I started 4 years ago. Bodybuilding is a physical sport though, or maybe their training sucks. I don't know, maybe they don't know what they're doing.
But on the other hand, Andy Frisella says there are two types of entrepreneurs.
There's the business type and the creative type. The business type is the guy who opens a lemonade stand when they're 7 years old and learns how to sell at a very early age. So if they do decide to open a business when they're 18 or 20, they already have a lot of experience so they may already be a multi millionaire in less than 2-3 years after opening their first business. That's usually the case for these overnight millionaires, they have so much experience already and have this understanding of what people want so they're already of the curve. My little brother is like that too, he started selling t-shirts when he was 12. But they may lack that visionaire aspect to them, which could make them stagnant once they become successful. That's why you see so many $1m-$10m companies, and few that go past $10m in revenue. I believe only 0.4% of companies make more than $10m worldwide.
And there's also the creative type. I'm certainly one of them. These are the guys who love to build. They love to create new things from ground 0, whether it'll be buildings, lego, race tracks, creating video game levels, they're obsessed about the process(well both are). However because they're the creative/visionaire, they may need to team up with a sales person or learn that by themselves which is a process in itself, understanding the value to consumer dichotomy.
Point is, some people are more inclined to be great athletes(they're naturally fast and strong so once they start working out they'll be amazing athletes). Or if you're someone who has great abstract thinking then understanding advanced maths and 3d programming may be for you. That's Steve Wozniak for you, while Steve Jobs was the visionaire, the creative type.
Do you think it applies to entrepreneurship too? Would love to have an interesting discussion!
I think it's a little bit of both.
You got two sides of the spectrum. Guys like Gary V who say that entrepreneurship is something that cannot be taught, he uses the LeBron James example often. Everybody can go out there and play basketball, but not everybody is gonna play ball like LeBron or Michael Jordan. And that's true, unless you're 6'7-6'8, have a 40 inch+ vertical and weigh 240 pounds then you're not gonna play like LeBron. Or Micahel who was almost 6'5, has huge hands and could palm the basketball easily and had a 45-46 inch vertical too. Same can be said about football/soccer because I used to be one not so long ago. Not everybody is gonna play like Messi or Ronaldinho. At the same time though, it's a physical sport and genes and muscle memory plays a huge role here. Growing up, I was an average athlete. Once I got to high school, I've gotten pretty athletic with very little training, probably because of puberty. And then once I started weight lifting, running and dropped some bodyfat, my athleticism went through the roof. I was always the most athletic, fastest guy on every team I've played on. This is not to brag but it's to give you some context.
I've seen some guys in the gym who've been there ever since I started and they've grown nothing. They look almost the same as I did when I started 4 years ago. Bodybuilding is a physical sport though, or maybe their training sucks. I don't know, maybe they don't know what they're doing.
But on the other hand, Andy Frisella says there are two types of entrepreneurs.
There's the business type and the creative type. The business type is the guy who opens a lemonade stand when they're 7 years old and learns how to sell at a very early age. So if they do decide to open a business when they're 18 or 20, they already have a lot of experience so they may already be a multi millionaire in less than 2-3 years after opening their first business. That's usually the case for these overnight millionaires, they have so much experience already and have this understanding of what people want so they're already of the curve. My little brother is like that too, he started selling t-shirts when he was 12. But they may lack that visionaire aspect to them, which could make them stagnant once they become successful. That's why you see so many $1m-$10m companies, and few that go past $10m in revenue. I believe only 0.4% of companies make more than $10m worldwide.
And there's also the creative type. I'm certainly one of them. These are the guys who love to build. They love to create new things from ground 0, whether it'll be buildings, lego, race tracks, creating video game levels, they're obsessed about the process(well both are). However because they're the creative/visionaire, they may need to team up with a sales person or learn that by themselves which is a process in itself, understanding the value to consumer dichotomy.
Point is, some people are more inclined to be great athletes(they're naturally fast and strong so once they start working out they'll be amazing athletes). Or if you're someone who has great abstract thinking then understanding advanced maths and 3d programming may be for you. That's Steve Wozniak for you, while Steve Jobs was the visionaire, the creative type.
Do you think it applies to entrepreneurship too? Would love to have an interesting discussion!
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