You can gain great wealth and fame and yet, ironically, you must not fantasize about great wealth and fame
I've known entrepreneurs who daydream about a beautiful future in which they are wealthy and famous. These entrepreneurs tend to fail. The ones who succeed simply wake up each day and do the work.
In this article I tell one story of failure and one story of success. Of the entrepreneur who failed, the failure was self-inflicted. A bit more self-awareness, a bit more self-honesty, a willingness to confront their own insecurities: that was all they needed to become successful. But they got lost in daydreams about how great the future would be. By c…
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