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Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works
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Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works

by Daniel Priestley
May 2013
Beginner
232 pages
3h 44m
English
Capstone
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MAXIM 2: INFLUENCE COMES FROM OUTPUT … NOT CONFIDENCE

Don’t wait until you feel confident in your abilities before you create something. Confidence is not required.

Recently I watched a short video about influential people. It was beautifully shot but it didn’t say very much. Just some very basic observations about people who have been influential in the past.

The opening line stated something that I flat out disagree with: “an influencer has a certain confidence that not many people have.”

Take a look at Whitney Houston, Kurt Cobain, John Candy and Michael Jackson, and you won’t see people who were supremely confident. You will see people who were perpetually tormented by their insecurities, plagued by self-doubt and a lack of confidence resulting ...

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