A short monologue by a speaker (Peter Vander Wall) reflecting on what a business truly teaches: that the primary value of building a business is personal development and the mindset shifts it forces, and that entrepreneurial identity is shaped by the process rather than by any single venture's success.
Chapters
What does a successful business look like? Well, at the end of the day, it comes down to who you become through the process of building this business. I don't know about you, but for me, building my business has been the greatest personal development tool in the world. The lessons I've learned, the mindset shifts I've been forced to embody. Ask anybody who knows me. I'm a different person today than before I started my business. Because the reality is no business defines who you are as an entrepreneur. It's fairly common for an entrepreneur to have multiple businesses over the course of their life. And so whether the business is successful or not actually has nothing to do with the business and everything to do with who it turns you into as an entrepreneur.