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My Hardest Point In Business

Name: My Hardest Point In Business
Uploaded: 2024-10-01T15:01:07+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker reflects on the evolving challenges of growing a business. He argues that there is no single "easy" revenue milestone—each…

1 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker reflects on the evolving challenges of growing a business. He argues that there is no single "easy" revenue milestone—each stage (from $1K to $1M) brings its own hard point because growth always introduces a new constraint, which is essentially a skill deficiency. These deficiencies manifest as painful moments of not knowing how to proceed, keeping the entrepreneur in a perpetual state of skill acquisition. As the business scales, the stakes of mistakes rise dramatically, moving from a $1,000 error to $10,000, $100,000, and eventually million‑dollar mistakes, each causing significant pain. The core message is that difficulty never disappears; it merely shifts, requiring continuous learning and adaptation.

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What was your like hardest kind of point in business? Would that be like $10K mark, $100K mark, million mark? Honestly, dude, it's all hard. It's just different. So if you're hoping that it gets easier, it won't. The hard will just change. Because fundamentally, think about this one. If you were growing, you will always have a constraint of the business. If there's a constraint of the business, it means there's a skill deficiency between you and what you need in order to grow. And skill deficiencies typically manifest as pain. You're like, shit, I really need to do this and I don't know how. And so as long as you're continuing to grow, you will continue to have that same pain of not knowing what you're doing. And so you will always be in skill acquisition mode. The stakes just get bigger. Like, you make your first $1,000 mistake, then you make your first $10,000 mistake, for $100,000 mistake, your first million-dollar mistake. It just keeps going, and I promise you that every one of them hurts.