“It’s just like business, you have to problem solve it,” Mike told me. It was a dismal Saturday morning, and we roamed the top of a squat house with an earthen roof picking blueberry vines from the soil. I was running a volunteer service event at a YMCA camp for my Rotary group. Mike was responding to my observation that only two Rotarians stepped up, despite more than a month’s worth of promotion.
There are a class of problems that are innate to entrepreneurship. They’re problems that you can’t read a book to get an answer to. They’re problems that few can give you advice on.
This is because they’re contextual and shifting. Unbounded and murky.
Surmounting them requires considerable technical skill. But perhaps as importantly, it requires optimism that you will figure it out.
“Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.”
Featured image is Honest Abe in his 40’s when he was a “prairie lawyer.” Used under public domain.