I started a business and realized very quickly that there are people who are good at sales and business development, and I’m not one of them. The overall exper

I started a business and realized very quickly that there are people who are good at sales and business development, and I’m not one of them. The overall experience was still very worthwhile - what I learned about that side of things made me a better engineer, and I have a newfound respect for people who are good at the business side of things. It would be easy for me to chalk it up to bad luck or not having the right privilege or whatever, but that just would be sour grapes. As with everything in life, hard work can make up for lesser talent or bad luck, great talent can make up for a lack of effort, and being lucky is sometimes better than either.