The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

January 13Life Evolving

To be wise is but to know how little can be known. The true searcher after truth and knowledge is always like a child; although gaining strength from year to year, they still learn to labor and to wait. The field of labor is ever expanding before them, reminding them that they have yet more to learn; teaching them that they are nothing more than a child in knowledge, and inviting them onward with a thousand varied charms.

William Wells Brown—Three Years in Europe; or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met (1852)

Any entrepreneurs caught believing they have mastered their craft are just about to get their butt kicked.

The lifelong practice of gathering knowledge begins with the desire to learn but blossoms with the admission that you know so little. This isn't a flaw in your education; it's an acknowledgment that you can never run out of things to absorb.

Committing to a life of practice and growth requires curiosity above all else. Curiosity is the entrepreneur's perpetual learning device and personal growth engine.

Some have more of it quite naturally, but it can be learned and embraced.

True curiosity is not simply the gathering of information—it's the questioning of information gathered.

Why not? How does this work? Why do we do it this way? What if we …

Excitement breeds curiosity, and few things stimulate excitement like adventure.

Today, plan an adventure, something you've never done, maybe even something you're a little afraid to do, and ...