13 Painfully True Things

You’ll Never Read in a Business Magazine

Business magazines and entrepreneurship articles sell an

idea.

But plenty of truths are incompatible with what we want

you to believe.

Let’s explore a few of the more common problems with most business articles

today.

13.) Failure is necessary. But for many, it is fatal.

For many who want to make the leap, failure would mean living in the streets, losing medical insurance, not being able

to support our families, strained relationships

Many don’t make it and not necessarily because they were worse at anything

than you were.

12.) Self-awareness can be crippling.

You have to be blind enough to keep doing what you have to when support wears thin and the odds are stacked

against you.

But the blind miss a lot of things.

11.) Luck is almost as important as hard work.

• What if Steve Jobs never met The Woz?

• What if Yahoo! did end up buying Google in 1998?

• What if the Beatles never met Brian Epstein?

10.) Being born rich–or in the right place — gets you most of

the way there.

Would Bill Gates or Donald Trump have had the same impact were they born

in Mongolia or Tahiti?

9.) We can’t all follow our dreams.

There will always need to be those whose job it is to support those who do.

And while market valuation of these jobs might differ, they are all

important.

8.) Most people are ‘ungrateful’.

One fad in business think-pieces is to “encourage entrepreneurship in

employees”.

But employees are employees — not quite partners.

7.) Evil wins.

No, the good guys don’t always win. No, bad people don’t always get

punished.

6.) We’re rarely the good guys.

Have you bought something that wasn’t ethically produced? Or thought

of a way to reduce benefits for your employees in the name of “economic

necessity”?

5.) Exploiting others and the environment is often the only

way to advance.

4.) You can’t exactly copy other people’s success.

3.) Higher learning is often nothing but a social club.

What is often more important than academics for entrepreneurship is

social success.

2.) For many, these articles help maintain a fantasy.

Try to limit your attachment to whatever some writer said, and focus

on doing things.

1.) Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.

Entreps come in all shapes, ages and sizes. But, and this is one huge but, you

might not be ready…

…yet.

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