Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from June, 2009

The Wise & Persistent (a.k.a. Agile) Entrepreneur

The Wise & Persistent (a.k.a. Agile) Entrepreneur  "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."  Bertrand Russell The Dunning-Kruger effect explains the pervasive and perverse phenomenon where people with less competence rate their ability higher than do people who are relatively more competent. The successful pursuit of any major goal in life requires many things including the much overrated Luck. In my mind, two qualities stand head and shoulders above everything else as absolutely essential to success: Your ability to Learn Your Persistence I've previously discussed how to improve your ability to learn . Today I want to share with my fellow entrepreneurs my thoughts on persistence . I'm sure you had enough lessons of persistence knocked into your head. And it may even be getting to a point where the word starts to lose its meaning. But the thing is, ...