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How Entrepreneurs Sabotage Their Success
Three simple acts to protect yourself
A year ago, while navigating the new world of having a parent with Alzheimer’s, I took a job working as a virtual assistant. The most alluring aspect of the job was flexibility, yet over time an even greater benefit emerged.
I’d spent decades on the Kabuki stage of corporate America, attending “important” meetings and being asked “important” questions. Now, there was none of that. I’d stumbled upon a secret peephole and looking through it at people, I discovered I could tell in almost minutes who would succeed and who would fail.
The first thing I observed is why most entrepreneurs fail.
It’s shocking how quickly this appeared to me and how accurately it predicts success or its opposite. Those who were destined to fail didn’t trust people.
From my “you’re a nobody” perch, it became clear why people who should have succeeded were failing or worse. What could be worse than failure?Being just successful enough to keep working and surviving, yet going nowhere. A Sisyphean existence from which people eventually burnt out and quit.
Those who trust others, even through their mistakes, tend to make money. The “trusters” are growing while everyone else is…