Most business advice is useless.
After all, entrepreneurship can’t be taught. It’s learning by doing. But what’s the most minimal amount of theory every entrepreneur needs to know?
I had a lot of deep talks with friends and family lately.
Surprisingly, all conversations revolved around the same kind of topics:
- Why am I unhappy?
- What’s the next step in my life?
- How to achieve personal transformation?
At the age of 10, I had a seemingly glorious business idea. I envisioned a voice recorder that turns audio automatically into computer text.
Although I was clueless about how to build this product, I had the urge to share this idea with my father. Then the shock — my father confessed to me that an audio-to-text converter already had been invented.
The good news is that I had enough time to process that shock. The bad news is that, even 20 years later, the same phenomenon keeps happening to me:
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with motivational advice. But thanks to Facebook, Instagram & Co., I’ve got completely tired of it.
To give you a taste, here are some of my least favorites:
- Work hard, play hard
- Life is a grind
- Just keep going
- You can sleep when you’re dead
Masochism at its finest.