Life is a funny thing. Yes, I mean that the ability to express joy, laugh at yourself and recognize absurdity all point to someone who has a good grasp on reality. But life is funny also because when it seems to teach you one thing, it rewards you for just the opposite.
School for example, society’s model for life training, is all about conformity. And yet it is very often the nonconformists who succeed because they are the innovators, the first with the idea, and the gutsiest in promoting it.
In business, and especially for entrepreneurs like Virtual Assistants, and most especially at times like these in America, the only sure thing is a rock-solid belief in yourself. Which may very well mean saying “yes” when everyone says “no”, and then taking action.
“…[E]veryone said Sam Walton was crazy to build his stores in small towns. Almost everyone who has had an idea that’s somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they’re insane.”
This is a quote from a Fortune interview with Larry Page, Google co-founder, who bemoans the small percentage of risk-takers even at his own forward-looking company.
“Honestly, I’m a little baffled…My experience is that when people are trying to do ambitious things, they’re all worried about failing when they start. But all sorts of interesting things spin out that are of huge economic value.”
Not only economic, but social, too. The biggest problems on the planet can be addressed. It calls for determined risk-takers building momentum with their persistence and eventually, as with the Japanese and the reliable automobile, others are inspired to copy the success.
Who can do it?
“If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don’t have a really narrowly focused education…You’d want to be more like Edison. If you invent something, that doesn’t necessarily help anybody. You’ve got to actually get it into the world; you’ve got to produce, make money doing it.”
OK, all you virtual Edisons, let’s think big and make everybody’s life a little better.
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