Kevin argues that delusional confidence, an unwavering belief in future success before you have any results, is the single most important factor behind entrepreneurial success. Unlike confidence built on past wins, this mindset lets you break free from a conventional job and actually launch something.
People ask me the question all the time, like, Kevin, what was, like, the number one reason that you were able to, you know, find success or be able to, like, leave your job or create, you know, a successful entrepreneurial venture? And it's hard to kind of boil everything down to one thing, right? Because there's many variables. There's so many elements of luck, the people that you meet, right? In my opinion, there really is one thing that's the most important when it comes to being successful as a human being in the chaos of life, or whatever you want to call it. And you know, that thing I like to call delusional confidence, right? Because in a traditional sense, confidence comes from having experience, having results, and then that gives you the confidence, right? But the problem is, if you don't have those results and you haven't, you know, achieved those results yet, right? Then you don't have that confidence by default. And so, you know, delusional confidence. What that means to me is you believe in yourself with this unbreakable, unshatterable confidence that you're going to be successful no matter what you do.
