Study Journal

This week has been great. I learned a lot and did an "entrepreneurial soul search" that I found powerful. Most of the learning I did was from the book Launching Leaders as I read through chapters 1 to 3. I'll be commenting down below on what I learned in more in detail. Taking Control Of Your life This is the first chapter and learned some meaningful particles of understanding. Life is too complex to be understood from every single point of view or perspective. It is hard to predict what the future might hold for each of us, nearly impossible. This means there is no such thing as a recipe for success, no matter how good or hard-working we are. This doesn't mean I don't believe that improving and trying to be better is useful because it is, but I like the next framework of thinking: 'No matter how much you try there is no guarantee of success. So do not value yourself for your successes. Now I am making myself a bit clearer I think. I learned in this chapter th...

After all that has been said, entrepreneurship sounds terrifying and exciting. It has been portrayed as a difficult, painful, and insecure path, but at the same time with a fulfilling, rewarding, and satisfying result. I am not a parent, but it sounds like parenting to me. It is like you take have to care for a baby, a baby that requires a lot of your time and effort. Many times, you cannot spend time on things that are fun to you because you have to attend to greater responsibility. By night you wonder how it will grow and start to create a lot of expectations around that. Sometimes that baby doesn’t meet your expectation and you might get sad, but hopefully, it does not take him that long until he starts giving you those moments of joy, after the pain and sacrifices you have experienced. That is how I believe it is going to be on this path. I have experience failure on this path even before starting. I have felt many fears, probably all of them, fearing of not being good enough, fear...