Ryan Daniel Moran argues that building confidence from past achievements (writing a book, working with a mentor, building a business) is healthier than constantly comparing yourself to others. He emphasizes small, one-to-one actions as the real start of entrepreneurship and warns that waiting for big leaps or comparing to public figures leads to paralysis.
There's always like a better version out there that you always have to chase, which I think is just horrible for your confidence. Whereas when you flip it and you find all the reasons that you can be confident, like you just listed off all the things that your life has led to, like, you got to write a book, you got to work with your mentor, you got to build this business. These are all things in your past that you can be confident about that you can build upon for the next thing and for appreciation. Where I think most people are looking at the outside world or they'll look at Noah Kagan or Ryan Moran and say, now I have a gap, right? But the perception is they've accomplished these things. And so I need to take these big leaps of progress in order for me to feel worthy enough for me to be an entrepreneur. And I think it's just the most unhelpful thing when you are starting your business, because all of the start happens when you are doing the one to one interaction and doing something small. And then you grow what starts to pop. Otherwise you get into that trap where you're thinking about it for three years and you never get it off the ground.
