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There's something to be said about being naive/foolish. I remember when I first started with this whole entrepreneurship thing. Since I had not seen the pitfa
by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
There's something to be said about being naive/foolish. I remember when I first started with this whole entrepreneurship thing. Since I had not seen the pitfalls and the realities of certain difficulties, I thought anything was possible. Finding that same level of foolish confidence mixed in with the occasional reality check can be a powerful thing. Stop looking at the impossibilities and all the common "this wont work because of x questions". This quote from notorious big always summed it up nicely for me:
"The key to staying, on top of things is treat everything like it's your first project, knahmsayin? Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern. Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry."
- dualogy 17y agoJobs said the same thing, but in that unmistakably his, much terser style. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." Of course, not too literally: not as hungry and foolish as a savant hunting for prey. We're talking about markets, too. Observe the heavy brain lifting going on in entrepreneurship at the same time. One half of the entrepreneurs brain is, and needs to be hungry and foolish; the other so ruthlessly rational, perpetually self-scrutinizing, plus balancing and aligning private goals with public demand. All of this is neither literally the outcome of nor a requirement for "hungriness" or "foolishness".