Eric Siu explores why young people struggle to succeed, pointing to impatience and emotional gaps like proving others wrong or seeking validation. Insecurity and resentment drive the wrong kind of motivation, and many wannapreneurs quit when they hit the hardship required to actually make it.
Everyone's just so uncomfortably impatient, mainly because 90% want to be successful to fill gaps in their soul, to prove it to the girl that didn't go out with them, or stick it to dad who said they were never going to make it, or to their teachers that got D's and F's. All my teachers told me I was going to be a garbage man. I don't know why they picked on garbage men because they make plenty of money, but that's what was the '80s thing of like, you're bad at school. I get why people can build resentment, why people have insecurities, parent dynamics, not being popular in high school. It all makes sense to me. I get it.
But it is what fucks people up from maximizing It also sounds like not enough people are willing to eat shit. Everyone wants to win, but not enough people are willing to eat shit.
That's because most people are fake entrepreneurs.
Wanntrapreneurs?
Yeah, yeah, like it became cool.
