Sam Parr and a co-speaker reflect on feeling clueless about entrepreneurship even years in. Sam compares it to sending someone on a multi-year trip with no guarantee they'll return, capturing the long uncertainty of building something that might not work.
I see some of these smart 26, 27-year-olds. I think to myself, I still don't behave that way and I'm 10 years older than that. When I was 26 and 27, like, I didn't know anything. I knew nothing.
Yeah, while I was sitting there being like, why am I just on a whiteboard? This guy's out there just doing it. I got to do what this guy's doing. It took me 10 years to even figure out at all what the hell is going on. 10 years. So it feels much worse in the moment.
Imagine sending someone off on a trip for 2 years and having no idea like what's going on, if they're ever going to come back. And that's what entrepreneurship kind of feels like. It could have took 2 years, it could have took 5 years, who knows? But we're just going to go in that direction and I pray and I hope that we're going to find something. That's like That's like what the uncertainty feels like.
