Former military personnel often succeed as entrepreneurs because of discipline, a clear vision they call their North Star, and a bias toward action over analysis. They treat wrong decisions as data, not failures. As Teddy Roosevelt said, doing something wrong beats doing nothing.
All of the ex-military men I know, they crush it as entrepreneurs. Is there like something in the water or is it just the discipline? What are your thoughts on that?
I think there are a couple of things that go into that. Discipline is absolutely one of those things. Any person out there that's trying to make progress should have that established foundation already. And I think it's important to have a clear vision of where you want to go. So knowing what you want to accomplish before you actually set out to accomplish it, because that then becomes your North Star. And when you have that, it's easy to wake up and say, I'm already helping millions of people. We just haven't draws paths yet. A lot of guys that were in the military, they know how to make decisions quickly, not belabor over every little detail and take action. And there's actually a quote, it was 26th President of the United States of America, Teddy Roosevelt, said, at any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing you could do is the wrong thing. And the worst thing you could do is nothing at all. If you make the wrong decision, you then have data to inform your other decisions.
