Jeff Bezos says ideas are easy but building them into real products is hard. Stay stubborn about your core vision but flexible on the details, since your initial assumptions will be wrong. Managing expectations reduces frustration.
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It's easy to have ideas. It's very hard to turn an idea into a successful product. There are a lot of steps in between. It takes persistence, relentlessness. So I always tell people who are, you know, who think they want to be entrepreneurs, it's— you need a combination of stubborn relentlessness and flexibility, and you have to know when to be which. And basically, you need to be stubborn on your vision because otherwise it'll be too easy to give up. But you need to be very flexible on the details because as you go along pursuing your vision, you'll find that some of your preconceptions were wrong, and you're going to need to be able to change those things.
And that's one of the best talks ever. If you haven't got a chance, watch the full one. I always say, like, frustration, in my opinion, is typically always caused by expectations, and the way things should be is the problem in most people's thought process. So get through