Power of the Entrepreneur

Looking back on my career as an entrepreneur, I am amazed to notice that I did my worst work when I was at the top of my game. That's right; I did my best when I was at my lowest. Back then I thought that I was just lazy when I was comfortable, but the day came that I understood this as a source of power and success.

If business was booming and resources were in abundance, I lost all motivation. For the longest time I thought that only under desperation could I find creativity and motivation. If you took away all my money and locked me inside of a small, cockroach-infested, apartment, with nothing more than a phone, laptop, Internet access, and 11 cans of beef stew without a can opener, you would be shocked at what I can get done. I would figure out how to open the cans of food with my cell phone, and within 8 days, deposits would start appearing in my bank account. I thought this was just my primitive survival mechanism kicking in. As it turned out, I was neither lazy nor motivated by primitive survival instincts. It is actually a personality trait that few possess and even fewer understand.

This isn't about sucking it up and getting to work. I will spare you that speech, because lots of people have written about that topic already. What I am talking about is where a person gets their motivation from. Is it generated from internally or externally? That is the million dollar question. A true entrepreneur is motivated from internal validation.

A normal person is motivated by external validation. Most people without resources have nothing to draw validation from and they cannot get excited enough to accomplish starting a business. They cannot find the motivation to figure out how to build something out of nothing. Give that person a large office, nice business cards, and an important title and they tend to get to work and behave in a way that is congruent with that external validation. The biggest problem occurs when external validation is given to them, rather than being earned by them. They then boss people around without actually knowing what they are talking about, resulting in the business falling apart under misdirection. This is why an average person fails at starting a business. They either can't find the motivation to start from scratch or, if they get lucky and have some resources fall into their lap, they never learn how to build resources, which is what entrepreneurship is all about. The most common thing I see when non-entrepreneurs try to start companies is that money gets squandered to buy stuff that gives them external validation. These are the people who go bankrupt paying for huge office space that they do not need. The only thing they succeed at is building nothing out of something as they exhaust their resources without building mechanisms for profit. The funniest thing to me is that as the business fails, all of their external validation starts to disappear and with it their power at the very time they need it most. Their need for external validation guarantees their failure.

Then there exists a rare breed, the entrepreneur. This is the kind of person who truly can build something out of nothing. The entrepreneur gets his motivation from internal validation. It makes no difference to his self value if he is running things from a one-room apartment or the top floor of a skyscraper. He will be called arrogant and egotistical because he sees his value only inside of himself; he considers his circumstances and assets irrelevant. He believes that he has the power to create money out of nothing and his motivation for success is showing that belief to be true. For him, it's not what he has; it is what he can do, and once that is done, he can have anything.

Now that you understand that how a true entrepreneur is motivated, I will explain what people see as laziness, loss of interest, and lack of motivation once their businesses get going. The entrepreneur gets excited about being able to do what more than 99% of the people on this planet cannot do, create something out of nothing. True entrepreneurs lose interest when the process turns into building something out of something because they see that as a goal anyone could accomplish, so it doesn't feed their ego in the same way. They are excited by being able to do what others cannot. The true entrepreneur is a fire starter. After things get going, they hand it off to the management they hired and leave to start another business. They start that new business with nothing. They understand the power in doing this and know that the man who needs "no thing" has "no thing" holding him back. He gets his validation internally. That internal validation gets satisfaction from being able to create things out of "no thing" - that is the magic! That is the real entrepreneur at work.

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Drawk Kwast is a life coach. His methods are unconventional, and he makes no apologies as he tells you how to dominate the competition at work, attract the most desirable women on the planet, and ultimately achieve a fulfilling life.