One of the dangers of being a good listener is that, well—you listen. Combine this with a tendency to believe that other people generally know what they are talking about, and you’ve got the setup for entrepreneurial enervation.
Herein, five of the most off-target “truths” that business experts inflicted on my entrepreneurial soul:
If you are working too many hours, you’re doing something wrong.
MYTH! The 4-hour workweek? Who’s kidding whom? Maybe this is relevant if your goal is near-total retirement or some other ‘lifestyle option’. Or perhaps you have created a totally self-service online business, have outsourced the satisfaction of your personal needs, and your ambition is a life of leisure. But if you are bootstrapping a company, or you want to change the world with your innovation, be prepared to sweat. And besides, if you know how to build a quality team and you have a worthy goal, why would you want to NOT work?
To read the original article: Five Wrong Things Experts Told Me
