I Never Made Money with My One-Person Business Until I Gave Up These Things
Begging gatekeepers in a cheap suit and tie for permission
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4 min readOct 14, 2024
I never saw myself as an entrepreneur.
I come from a risk-averse immigrant Asian family.
I had 3 options in life…
Become:
- Doctor
- Lawyer
- Or failure.
Entrepreneurship was discouraged.
Even though my dad started multiple businesses.
But now, I’ve:
- Created a six-figure writing business.
- Got the freedom to travel the world.
- Built a 90k+ audience online.
Here’s what I changed to finally start making money.
Begging gatekeepers in a cheap suit and tie for permission
I learned an important lesson in business:
There are no rules.
Aside from physics and the law, anything goes.
But gatekeepers hate it.
They want you to lick their boots for permission.