A short YouTube clip by Louis Massaro advising entrepreneurs (or people running businesses) to adopt a growth mindset when learning new skills. Massaro emphasizes that beginners often “suck” at first, that discomfort causes many to quit, and that one must accept being an amateur to progress from initial poor performance to competence.
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And anytime you're developing a skill, when you start, you suck. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And. And that's where most people give up. Right? Especially people that are just kind of, like, naturally talented at certain things. They. They try stuff, and if it's outside of their comfort zone, that they're not comfortable being outside of the comfort zone because they're so used to just being good at everything, that's. That's one of the biggest things that you could overcome, is saying, you know what? That's keeping me in a fixed mindset. I need to be in a growth mindset, and I need to be okay being an amateur again. I need to be okay being a beginner again. I need to be okay learning something and not being good at it so that I could suck my way through it and then become overly competent with that and become skillful with that.