The grind mindset keeps entrepreneurs stuck on low-value tasks while real progress happens at the frontier where big opportunities are. Hiten Shah stayed successful by constantly generating new ideas instead of just maintaining his business. Study and work should push your thinking to where it matters most.
The job of studying is perspective. I have heard a lot of people talk about grinding, right? And the need to like hustle, you got to work hard to make your business go. And it is hard work. But the thing I have found is that people who grind focusing on the part of the business that's supposed to be repeatable are people who like keep on trying to make it happen, right? And as a result, they're focusing on the low-value stuff and how to, you know, take care of administrative stuff or growth hack or whatever. All these things around the margins. As opposed to pushing themselves to the frontiers, like where's the big money in the market and how can they be doing more. Because when you do the latter, when your brain is on the frontier, what I have found is that that allows the mechanical part to be mechanical and that allows the processes to become repeatable because you're not trying to make them interesting. Hiten Shah has this idea of the Hiten bomb that he credits with like keeping his, one of his businesses from being successful as it might be because he kept on coming up with interesting ideas for this process where people were just making the business work. Let it work. You go explore the periphery and get perspective.
