Short excerpt from a talk by Cameron Herold arguing that entrepreneurship feels difficult not because business is inherently hard but because many people lack core business skills; he compares teaching business skills to teaching children baseball fundamentals.
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I didn't know. Nobody never taught me that before. I'm 50 years old and I didn't know this. Like, this is irresponsible of me to teach my kids how to swing a bat when I don't know how to swing the bat. I don't even know how to hold the bat, let alone swing the bat. But then why are entrepreneurs keep saying that business is difficult? Business isn't difficult. What happens is we would never send our kid off to little league baseball without teaching them the basics. You wouldn't send your kid off because Johnny would come home from baseball, go, daddy, baseball sucks. You're like, no, Johnny, you suck at baseball. And then all entrepreneurs come back and you go, business is difficult. No, you're difficult because you're not. Because you suck at it. You're not learning this core skills, and you keep repeating it.