13 painfully true things you'll never read in a business magazine
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13 Painfully True Things
You’ll Never Read in a Business Magazine
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Business magazines and entrepreneurship articles sell an
idea.
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But plenty of truths are incompatible with what we want
you to believe.
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Let’s explore a few of the more common problems with most business articles
today.
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13.) Failure is necessary. But for many, it is fatal.
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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
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Many don’t make it and not necessarily because they were worse at anything
than you were.
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12.) Self-awareness can be crippling.
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You have to be blind enough to keep doing what you have to when support wears thin and the odds are stacked
against you.
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But the blind miss a lot of things.
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11.) Luck is almost as important as hard work.
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• 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?
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10.) Being born rich–or in the right place — gets you most of
the way there.
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Would Bill Gates or Donald Trump have had the same impact were they born
in Mongolia or Tahiti?
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9.) We can’t all follow our dreams.
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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.
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8.) Most people are ‘ungrateful’.
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One fad in business think-pieces is to “encourage entrepreneurship in
employees”.
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But employees are employees — not quite partners.
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7.) Evil wins.
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No, the good guys don’t always win. No, bad people don’t always get
punished.
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6.) We’re rarely the good guys.
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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”?
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5.) Exploiting others and the environment is often the only
way to advance.
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4.) You can’t exactly copy other people’s success.
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3.) Higher learning is often nothing but a social club.
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What is often more important than academics for entrepreneurship is
social success.
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2.) For many, these articles help maintain a fantasy.
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Try to limit your attachment to whatever some writer said, and focus
on doing things.
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1.) Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.
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Entreps come in all shapes, ages and sizes. But, and this is one huge but, you
might not be ready…
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…yet.
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