This short motivational dialogue (YouTube excerpt) discusses entrepreneurial challenges: the post-event drop in motivation, self-doubt from experience, and the value of treating a business like an art project or experiment. The speakers encourage viewing failures as feedback, learning through iterative attempts, adapting over time, and relying on a support network (mentions Nick, Megan, “life on fire”). The overall message: play, experiment, and keep adding fuel to your own motivation.
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The entrepreneurial road is really, really challenging. And we are all fired up here.
And you should be.
But in a couple days, you're gonna be back in your regular world with some friends and family who are not as supportive and nobody else here is like, sharing the same energy.
And you're gonna be back in the drudgery and the monotony. And if you don't bring your own logs and keep on adding wood to the fire and ask for help when you need it desperately, it. It's going to go out.
It goes out in me like, I've.
Achieved a decent degree of success.
I have a hard time finding that extra motivation. And sometimes I beat myself up.
I'm like, man, I just don't know. And I'm second guessing myself and I'm.
Like, why is acting this hard?
And I don't know if it'll work. And now I've got the benefit or curse of knowledge and then it makes me go like, ah, I know all the things that are going to go wrong now. And it scares the hell out of me. But I realized something the other day with somebody that was coaching me, taking me through some of my blockages and.
Limiting beliefs, et cetera.
And it reminded me about the very first business I did about 10 years ago. And I was putting something out there that was absolutely probably gonna fail. Like, there was no market validation for this. It was just something I kind of wanted to do and I wanted to try it out and see what happened. And if it didn't work, it was gonna be public and I was gonna look dumb. And you know what?
Those thoughts never went through my mind back then. It was literally, I'm just going to try this out. I'm going to treat it like art. Because if it's work, we try to.
Find a way to avoid it.
And if it's art or entertainment, we.
Try to find a way to pursue it.
And I realized that, you know, I was looking at this like art. Like, okay, this might work, it might not. People might like it, they might not.
I'm going to learn a hell of a lot along the way. And if it works, cool. If not, I'll figure it out. And it reminded me, play, make it an art project.
Your business is an art project. Whatever business you think about starting right.
Now, you may not be doing the same thing in three years.
I want to let you know this.
It will all be okay. It will all be okay.
And that doesn't mean it's going to turn out the way you envision it in fact, I guarantee it won't. 100% of your plans will not come.
Out the way you envision it right now.
Something will happen.
Some of it will be good, some it will be bad. But you will adapt, and you will change, and you will use the resources and the knowledge you have and the support network, and you'll adapt, and you'll try something new, and you'll keep doing it again. Because that's who you are. That's why you're in this room. That's why you've got resources, like Nick, like Megan, like life on fire and everybody else. There is no such thing as failure. There's only feedback.
And if you're not afraid to fail.
You'Re much less likely to do so. So thank you, Nick, for having me up. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, brother.
