Cameron

Cameron

Cameron

awesome post. If I had read this a few years ago, I would have saved myself a few hundred thousand dollars learning things the long way around with “experience”.

I was even told to see shrinks – I eventually realized that the people that thought I was crazy were all living a different life to what I wanted (retiring at 60, living an “okay” life etc…), so I simply scaled back on telling them what I really was thinking and thus saved myself from taking meds for ADD or Bipolar. I also started to read and hang out with more entrepreneurs so thus felt more “normal”.

I have a strategy that I pre-warn employees/partners etc about my tendency to get over-excited about ideas/concepts – so to scale back the vision a little and extend the timeline a few years and we will get there (I used to think it would happen within a week).

I found that talking to “non-dreamers”/pessimists/”normal thinking” people drove me crazy. So I stopped discussing my “big ideas” with most family members, normal employee friends and people who are generally not likely to be believers or take any action towards the vision.

If you start by spending a lot of time in “youology: studying what you want/what you are like and general mastery of self” or as Steven Covey calls it “with the end in mind”, the roller coaster becomes smoother.

The way I figure it if Nelson Mandella can spend 27 years in prison to eventually get what he wants, whats a few years of highs and lows to achieve the bigger dream. The “crash and burn” is just an option if you want to take it, it is never a crash unless you want it to be (in hindsight it is easier to say this).

Thanks for posting – rare to find such insights from true entrepreneurs!

Amir