The importance of the ego in entrepreneurship, and how that gets in the way when it's time to rebuild!
I start off with a short reflection on starting over in Lisbon, getting help, and the difficulty of being vulnerable!
Earn it
It’s okay to doubt yourself in the process… it’s better to earn your confidence.
Earning it might mean mistakes, failures and accidents… which force a deeper questioning. And in that questioning and all that activity of earning it, we come to understand our selves, our craft and our world much more intimately.
BUT we learn this all from the inside and out… in reverse… thru the negative space created by the “mistakes.”
Slowly and only with a calm, gentle, and kind perspective, we zoom out to see the whole picture… using the shadows to see the light, which is odd… as most of the time, as with most people, we simply focus on the objects IN the light… missing the entirety that encompasses the shadows.
So in a strange way, the mistakes, failures and accidents brings our craft all together. This is the process of earning it, earning our confidence, which often starts with a whole lot of doubt…
doubt that the light offers the whole picture…
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This is a sort of continuation of The Rebuild docu-series from 2020, when we tracked 5 amazing founder-friends of mine thru the rebuilding of their companies in the first year of the pandemic! This time around, I turn the camera around on myself to share my story.&