Jake Burhans says the struggle before a breakthrough is where entrepreneurs prove themselves. He quotes Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" to argue that taking action matters more than criticism, and frames the daily grind of running a business as the most powerful self-development tool available.
That is a full week. Listen, it is— there's a quote from Theodore Roosevelt called The Man in the Arena. You should look it up. I was going to read it. I'm not going to read it. It's not the critic who counts, it's the man in the arena. In the middle of all of it, I was talking to Isaiah in our company meeting— or not company meeting, but our owner meeting today— and I was like, we're in it. Like, you are in it. Respect to all the entrepreneurs out there who are running businesses because it's definitely a lot, right? It is definitely a lot. And every single day It's go time. You log in and it's like boom, right? How are you gonna respond all day long to get things done? So it's definitely, I would say, the most incredible self-development tool of all time, entrepreneurship.
