A short YouTube video (Capitalism.com) featuring Ryan Daniel Moran describing how running your own business strips away vanity and forces brutal self-honesty. The speaker frames entrepreneurship as a painful but valuable portal to self-awareness, especially during solitary moments (e.g., 2 a.m.).
Isn't that the greatest thing about businesses? If you do it long enough, doesn't it strip away? And not when you're in front of people, but in the darkness at night when Nobody's around at 2 in the morning when you can't sleep and there's some crap going on at work. Doesn't running your own business strip away all the possible vanity that you have and expose you completely naked, about what you're good at and what you're bad at? Because if you don't have that level, I find, of honesty with yourself, you're doomed to failure. It is a beautiful portal to become self aware.
