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Do Cool Sh*t - Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After
by Miki Agrawal
August 2013
Beginner
240 pages
4h 53m
English
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An Exercise in Evolution
So as you can see from reading my story, I am not the same person I was eight years ago, when I launched my first business at twenty-six years old. I learned so much about myself through creating a business and putting it out into the world. And every step of this journey has changed my outlook on life.
WHAT I LEARNED
I don’t get scared anymore when I encounter something unfamiliar. I remember the first time I received tax documents from the IRS for my business, I freaked out. They were complicated (I swear it takes the IRS five pages to say what a normal human being would say in one), and the way the IRS communicates is just so cold and awful and their rules and demands were unfamiliar territory. ...