Good advice but when it comes to business I think its better to stick with one idea and try the repetitions part of the article wrt to getting leads, traffic and sales and not the business idea.
I mean I see a lot of people trying so many new ideas quickly and not sticking with anything for long. This is a recipe for disaster.
Right. Act quickly, iterate and improve execution.
Many people have excellent ideas and spend too much time trying to perfect the first moves. Then, if/when they actually begin to execute and something unexpected happens they just abandon the project.
The author doesn't touch on it but I think there is a larger theme here, which is that there are more than one path to your goals and most of the detail we obsess over end up not mattering as much as we initially thought.
One example I like is the duolingo app. It will never turn you into a fluent or even good speaker of a new language. However, it makes you learn words which will more or less stick you after a while.
Once you get in a situation where you need to speak that language you will suck, but do a one week immersion and all that preliminary work you did will supercharge your speaking ability.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.0 ms ] threadI mean I see a lot of people trying so many new ideas quickly and not sticking with anything for long. This is a recipe for disaster.
Many people have excellent ideas and spend too much time trying to perfect the first moves. Then, if/when they actually begin to execute and something unexpected happens they just abandon the project.
One example I like is the duolingo app. It will never turn you into a fluent or even good speaker of a new language. However, it makes you learn words which will more or less stick you after a while.
Once you get in a situation where you need to speak that language you will suck, but do a one week immersion and all that preliminary work you did will supercharge your speaking ability.