Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video where Tim Frey and another speaker discuss how to evaluate business opportunities. They emphasize that many opportunities are poor fits, that learning (the ‘school of hard knocks’) is required, and that the best opportunities are often those you create for yourself rather than ones you find externally.
It's not about saying yes to every opportunity. It's about figuring out which ones are the right ones that are going to take you in the direction you want to go.
You have to say yes to a lot to know that there are a lot of no's as well. There's no hack to this either. There's no way that you can tell what opportunities are good or not. When I first started in business, everything just seemed like a great opportunity. But you just go through essentially the school of hard knocks and you work it out and then you just realize actually not that many good opportunities. And the good opportunities are the ones that you create for yourself.
