Two entrepreneurs discuss how core values and purpose guide career decisions. They stress asking hard questions about what's broken in your industry, then building solutions around those pain points. Everyone faces different obstacles when starting out, but identifying them is where ideas begin.
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So therefore, the outcomes are always led by my core values. The outcomes are already led by my passion, my mission, my purpose that I've decided. So I'm finding with this conversation I had, which is so apropos to what you're saying, is that no one's ever asked this person these questions. So what happens if you do go back to school, you get a different degree in an adjacent field, you then 5 years from now, we're going to have the— what's going to hold us back from not having the same conversation 5 years from now? Yeah. Right? And the next question I asked them was, what's wrong with your industry that you see that's making it more difficult for your job or other people in your particular position that's holding them back from being as efficient, as successful, or as capable? And that led to a wide conversation of like, oh, well, if we had this technology or if this industry wasn't 20 years behind. Then this would be different. And I think that's what you're talking about when I heard you, right? Is if you can, if you can challenge someone to solve that problem that they may have insight on and bring that to the marketplace, that's the entrepreneur, right?
Correct. Correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Creating opportunities and, and the challenges change depending on the type of industry and depending on your personality. Some people run into different types of challenges while starting and building a business because we all lack something.
