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👨🔧 What unpopular opinion I believe -
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⚒ What entrepreneurship looks like -
- I think most people are entrepreneurs (either at heart or in practice). Creatives that make new things, initiate projects, and start businesses and side hustles. While there are some people who think it's all glamour, entrepreneurs get their hands dirty. Over the last couple weeks I've done web development, videography, photography, IP work, marketing, sales, customer service, you-name-it for the NED Device. Entrepreneurs are easy to spot - they have dirty hands and wear lots of hats. Kudos to the entrepreneurs.
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🤔 What dilemma we face -
- Clayton Christensen is one of my favorite business thinkers. His book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," is a must read for any entrepreneur. This video gets at the heart of the dilemma. In essence, people "hire" your product or service to do a job for them, but it's almost never for
the reason you think. For example, I developed the NED Device to help my patients with sleep disordered breathing (i.e. snoring and OSA). However people don't "hire" it to stop their snoring. I had to look deeper. I discovered people don't even "hire" the NED Device for themselves. They buy it for the people around them - for their bedtime partner so they can sleep better, for their golf buddies so they can share a hotel room, for everyone in the airplane so they can sleep without
disturbing their neighbors.
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❔ What do you do -
- Since we are talking about entrepreneurship...this question, "What do you do?" is not always an easy one to answer. Besides wearing so many hats, entrepreneurs are notorious for having a multitude of jobs, avocations, and projects they work on at any given time. Am I dentist? Writer? Researcher? CEO? Podcaster? It varies from day to day and to hour to hour. These 8 alternative questions are far more powerful at building rapport with a new acquaintance, especially if they are an entrepreneur.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about -
"It's easier to hold your principles 100% of the time than 98% of the time."
-Clayton Christenson
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🎨 What course I finished -
- If you were to ask me "What do you do?" - besides not knowing how to answer - one thing I do know is that "artist" wouldn't jump to the top of my mind. But I did finish a JD Hillberry drawing course this week, which helped take my New Years "learn-to-draw" Challenge (5 minutes a day, 5 days/week) to the next level. Wood you like to
guess what my last drawing is a picture of?
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🚂 What I can't do on the train -
- I took a 6 hour train ride to Chicago. Took it 6 hours back to St. Louis. For these 12 hours I planned on reading through 96 bookmarked articles. I also planned on sharing the best ones with you here in today's Saturday 7. But it turns out I can't read on a train. Nevertheless, I did get some reading in this week, and in the spirit of entrepreneurship, here was my
favorite article/lecture: "How to Operate a Business"
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It's a pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you,
hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock. |
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