Entrepreneurship is not the right path for everybody. It’s important to figure out who you are and what makes you stick. Technicians find real passion in becoming skilled and using that skill. They don’t want to run a business.
In this episode Carter and Mo discuss being a technician vs being an entrepreneur and the importance of figuring out who you are.
•Do you actually want to be an entrepreneur? (00:50)
•Contemplating the good and the bad things about being an entrepreneur (03:31)
•A conversation Mo had with a plumber who realised he didn’t want to run a business (05:30)
•Being an entrepreneur is great when it’s going well (12:05)
•Carter is an entrepreneur because he isn’t skilled at anything (14:33)
•Why a great jiu-jitsu teacher may not want to run a school (16:56)
•The technician needs the entrepreneur and the entrepreneur needs the technician (18:46)
•An engineer decides to start a plumbing business (21:25)
•The changes Carter has made with his business this year as he decides what he really wants (23:40)
•Does going from jiu-jitsu competitor to school owner make sense? (26:56)
The A-Team
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John Danaher
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The Last Dance
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