Doing will always (or lets say, "on the majority") be more effective then studying, or reading, etc. I ran a painting franchise during school (such as College W

Doing will always (or lets say, "on the majority") be more effective then studying, or reading, etc. I ran a painting franchise during school (such as College Works Painting, Student Works and the like), and basically learned hard sales (walking doors, then making calls for 3-4 hours a night, sometimes the same leads all week for those 3-4 hours) for ~6-7 months. Sold painting projects from $300 - $12,000 (avg $6,500), hired painters, fired, lost painters, had massive headaches, worked 90 hours a week while first starting out "production" of getting the projects completed. Advanced the next year to "build" the team, ran ~12 college students doing the same thing I did the year before (trained them up from zero). Most business classes were funny after that (on seeing the lack of concrete applicability), but not completely worthless. EG: Operations made "sense" when examining project management of three painting crews, hours, time to completion, planning materials of the next jobs. I was just doing simplistic planning schedules on "operations" theory. I learned a lot from failing (having my best painting crew quit because I sucked at management) and succeeding (having another awesome painting crew groomed to take over all client relations, to where I worked 10 hours a week "managing" (as I learned from my failure of management) and just closing deals while production was completed). Article would do better with some metrics of numbers, whether they tried (or would try) to scale it. That was the hold back in the "internship" (basically franchises) of the painting gig. Average interns did ~$30,000 in production revenue and had 90% turnover. Top performers did $80-$100,000+ (I was one, and 90% of my team were the next year) and it was just about "scale" and delegation.