I finished the book "A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey" by Robert Sirico & Jeff Sandefer. It is a collection of journey's from different people and what they have learned about life and business. Reading this book you have a chance to reflect and apply the lessons learned from these different chapters.
Wanting to be a entrepreneur is a lot like this book and the different views we have about life. When you are a child you think your parents know everything because they can answer any question you ask them and you don’t know if it is truthful or not because you have complete faith in them. As a teenager you start to question what they know and start to think they are to old and do not understand that times have changed. As a young adult living on your own and supporting a family or serving a mission your parents gain a little more credit and you start to wonder how they handled life and their advice is welcomed but still cautious. When you have children your parents suddenly have all the answers and the most respect possible because you just don’t understand how they did knew so much. When you are old and frail you have suddenly become the genius and now your advice is valuable to your own posterity.
Starting a business is the same way at first you think everyone has all the answers and you trust almost anyone, different experiences and time passes by you listen a little less and think you know everything. A success here and a failure there suddenly you seek the advice of those veterans that have been consistent at running their business. Before you know it your retiring and giving your own advice.
We have to learn from those that are willing to teach us about business and proceed with caution and care. IF we are not willing to learn from those that have gone before us we will just fail over and over again because we think we know everything.
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