Eric Siu argues that entrepreneurs in their 20s waste energy jumping between projects instead of going deep on one thing. He emphasizes finding a peer group of other founders and pushing through hard times, quoting Churchill on persistence.
What is advice we'd give to our 20-something-year-old self? And this is more for people trying to become entrepreneurs. You got to focus on one thing in your early 20s, your mid-20s. You're going to try a bunch of different things. That's okay. But once you find the one thing, you got to lock in on it and really go deep. My mistake is I tried too many different things and I tried to do 7 different things at once. That's actually not success at the end of the day. That's the first thing. The second thing, I remember when I was 23, I called up an entrepreneur. I said, what's the biggest impact, like decision that you made? And he's like, joining entrepreneurs organization. And it's not necessarily entrepreneurs organization, but it's surrounding yourself with like-minded people, right? You do that, I do that. Find a peer group and focus for a very long time. The final thing I say, this is a Winston Churchill quote, is, if you're going through hell, keep going. Because that's literally just what life is.
