Unexpected Life Lessons Entrepreneurship Teaches You

Experience can be the best teacher.

Anangsha Alammyan
The Startup
Published in
6 min readOct 31, 2022

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Photo by Amos Bar-Zeev on Unsplash

No school, book, or course can prepare you for the roller coaster ride that comes with starting your own venture.

You wake up one day, heart close to bursting with inspiration.

And the next day, you start questioning your life choices and wonder why you dared to take up the challenge that’s entrepreneurship.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’d know I share snippets and learnings from this journey of building my writing business.

In this post, I’ve covered some lessons I recently learned that could only have come with pursuing my passion. Read on, and if you resonate with any, do let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Avoiding failure come with a price.

When you’re building a business, you have to experiment a lot.

By definition, experimenting means you fail a lot.

And when you fail a lot, you learn a lot.

But you don't always make the progress that you want to.

It's hard to consider learning as "progress” because our brains are so hardwired only to measure success or progress by the materialistic value we…

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