Every personal weakness is exposed. Entrepreneurship requires you to be a relatively “complete” person to be successful. In my estimation, I, like most people had to learn how to be that person on the fly. That is not easy. You realize just how much you don’t know when faced with decisions and problems that you alone are required to address. It is a rough learning experience.
If you don’t get ground up in that process, you come out the other side a different and much more capable person. It almost gives you superpowers, even in large corporate structures, because few people know what you know about how to make things happen. For me, I came out the other side able to land in almost any organization and have an immediate impact at scale no matter how large those organizations were. It was a powerful education though I did not understand it at the time.
That's very inspiring to hear. I'm in my early 30s, and do often think about if/when I should pull the trigger and try and build something for myself. I guess I just don't feel my current skills (even the technical ones) are sufficient to really get things done well yet.
If you don’t get ground up in that process, you come out the other side a different and much more capable person. It almost gives you superpowers, even in large corporate structures, because few people know what you know about how to make things happen. For me, I came out the other side able to land in almost any organization and have an immediate impact at scale no matter how large those organizations were. It was a powerful education though I did not understand it at the time.