A short motivational monologue emphasizing that strong self-confidence and self-belief are essential for entrepreneurial success. The speaker argues that without belief one should not start a business, and advocates for 'delusional optimism' and a large, ambitious vision paired with drive to overcome the high odds in business.
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If you do not have self confidence, like self belief, you're toast. If you don't believe in yourself, go work for someone else. Like don't even start, just pack it up, go make lattes, whatever. Like, if you don't believe in yourself, here's the thing, no one else is going to. The odds are so stacked against you in business that you have to have, I call it delusional optimism. You have to have this like persistent thinking of, I will make this work, things are going to work out for me, the universe is supporting me, it's all good. And most people don't and they freak out when there's a little hurdle in the road or whatever it is. So that self belief is really important. The second thing is drive. We talked about having a vision. Vision. If you have a small vision, like it's again, it's, forget about it, it's not even worth it. There's just like, if you think of a rocket ship leaving the Earth, there's so much energy required to get it out of orbit. It's the same thing with business, you know, like, it's like if you had a rocket ship that was only going to go from here to 10,000ft, like why would you even bother? Like it's just going to come right and fall. So you have to have a big vision. And that, that might scare some people because they don't know what it looks like at that level.