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November, 2020                                                                            Page 9
          Piece of Advice about Entrepreneurship




               f  you  were  to  give  a       look like a very flowery life        they failed.
               fresh-out-of-high-              where  you  just  keep            ·      They  deny,  they  cry,
        Ischool  kid  just  one                climbing up.                         they waste time, they get
        piece  of  advice  about  ·                It seriously will not.           depressed and so on.
        entrepreneurship,  what  ·                 You would fail, you would     ·      Sometimes  they  are
        would it be? Fresh kids out of         fail a lot of times.                 financially  broke  and
        c o l l e g e   s t a r t i n g                                             sometime mentally empty.

        entrepreneurship!  Welcome  Reality:
        to the real world. It is quite a  ·        Here  is  what  usually       Suggestion: Do not worry at
        positive  thought,  and                happens with most people.         all. You have time, and you can
                                                                                 pick  yourself  up  and  go
                                                                                 forward.  Here  is  what  you
                                                                            Blue need to do.



                                                                                 ·      Find out why you failed

                                                                            Green


                                                                           Red








        courageous as well. There is  ·            When  they  fail,  they

        certainly no harm in trying if         cannot even persist.                 as quickly as possible.
        you have the talent, but here  ·           They spend a lot of time  ·          Get to the bottom of it.
        are the caveats:                       in that state.                    ·      Learn something new.
                                            ·      See that red curve in the  ·         Alter your model or the
        Perception:                            below?  As  soon  as  it  dips       way  you  carried  yourself

        ·      Shown below is a plot                                                so  that  the  chances  of
           of  how  things  are                                                     failure are reduced.
           perceived(blue)  vs  how                                              ·      Move  forward  and  try
           they  actually  happen                                                   again.
           (red).  Scroll  down  and                                             ·      Success  will  come  to
           read back.                                                               you soon enough.

        ·      When  people  begin,
           t h e y   t h i n k   t h a t                                         You  know  what  is  the
           everything will look like a         down, people tend to spend  difference  between  people
           step jump going forward.            a lot of time in that state.      like  Elon  Musk,  Steve  Jobs,
        ·      They think that it will  ·          They don't find out why  and other common
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