A speaker argues you must choose between being a hands-on leader who scales the business yourself or partnering with a skilled manager to handle growth while you stay creative. Stop trying to be everything. Accept fear as part of courageous action and draw a clear line about your role.
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be smarter? Should you do whatever it takes to maximize your capacity and your intelligence? You have to resolve those inner conflicts, otherwise you won't do these things. Now, you're still going to be afraid. That comes with the territory of taking something on, but you can do it anyway. That's courage. But for you, you just have some mixed associations, and you got to draw a line in the sand about what you're going to be. Or there is another option: you go get a partner who's a great manager, leader. And if you really want to scale and you prove you got something strong enough, you find an entrepreneur who how to make money and build something, expand it, and we'll take the risk. And then you stay the great artist, because every company needs a great artist. So you've done a good job of pushing yourself, but you pushed yourself to a point. So you have to decide, am I going to push myself into gladiatorship, or am I going to hire a gladiator or partner with a gladiator and we'll do it together?