06/09/2017
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The 5 stages of entrepreneurship

By
REAL Entrepreneur
Published on June 16, 2017
Stage One: Drive
What most people lack, and the reason we’re divided as a society between go getters and settlers, is drive.
When you are driven, you suddenly have time.
Why? Because you somehow make that time.
When you are driven, you suddenly can .
Why? Because you jump in.
When you are driven, you suddenly find that you’re doing it.
Why? Because you actually do it.
However, drive is like a drug, one we get used to, and we require more and more of it each day, just to make the initial growth into happening.
The farther up that false growth curve you go, the more drive you require to keep climbing the steep way ahead. The minute you slow down, you feel like you’re missing out, like your time is passing, like you are wasting your moment, like you fall back.
Unfortunately, at any point in time, for any person on Earth, drive will dry out. It’s the effect of the more you know the less you know.
As the fast initial progress reaches the plateau phase, people quit because they basically don’t believe there is a top to that mountain. So that is wave one quitters.
Quitters are awesome because at least they started.
Stage Two: Persistence
From the driven starters, some insist that there must be a top of the mountain they climb, and they start to hustle.
They run out of drive, but somehow find inside them the other rarest of things among human personalities: persistence.
Persistence is painful because it is a sobering up process from the high drive caused.
The persistent ones keep plowing at it, with no drive in their veins, but a bitter combination of pride and ambition, sweetened only by vague hope.
The persistent people are awesome because they suffer those last miles.
Stage Three: Quitting
Right after persistence wears out, one finds itself at the top!
But behold, no breathtaking scenery, no peak to stick your flag into, no selfie to take from th