A short dialogue from a YouTube video ("The Intensity of Entrepreneurship") where two speakers discuss that careers and entrepreneurship involve recurring "periods of intensity". They emphasize that during these periods you must shift into a higher gear—more hours, focus, and energy—and that when those moments arrive you should give everything you have to avoid difficult recovery later. The tone is motivational and advisory.
Starting a business, being in business, being a teammate, it doesn't make a difference. Wherever you find yourself in your career.
You'Re always going.
To have periods of intensity.
One of the things that the average person doesn't think about as they become an entrepreneur is that starting a business, being in business, being a teammate, it doesn't make a difference. Wherever you find yourself in your career.
You'Re always going.
To have periods of intensity. Periods of intensity that just require a different gear, way more than you're accustomed to giving. And if you're an entrepreneur, you know this because it was the very beginning.
It was when.
The product didn't work.
It was when.
The sale went away.
When you.
Lost an opportunity and you.
Had a chance to.
Retreat, you had.
A chance to pull back, you had a chance to do.
Nothing, but you chose to take on another period of intensity.
And you know what I mean by that? It's that longer.
Hours, way more focus, way more energy towards your business. And yes.
They'Re not always that way.
It's not always a period of intensity. But when you're there, you have to.
Give it everything you got. Because if you don't, it's really hard to recover from a time that requires it where you don't give the energy. And you know exactly what I'm talking about. So whether you're in one now, like I'm in, or you are in a period of maybe calm honor where you're at, but just know one day, timing is required. When it's time for you to be intense, you got to give it all you got.
