Entrepreneurial Philosophy?
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:29 pm
There are so many entrepreneurial philosophies about what you "should do", or "must do". But can we make a philosophy about what you "can do"?
I'm not so much talking about limits, as I'm talking about working around those limits you already possess. I really dream about becoming an entrepreneur, and creating an empire of small game development studios where I can spread by ideas about good game development and be part in multitudes of artistic projects. I believe this is a strength of mine, and it's what I'm aiming towards becoming and realising in myself.
But game development is a hard, a tough, business. The battle for customers is fierce, the risk involved is high, and the returns may or may not be high however much labour you put in to it. I'm not a very quick-minded person, usually, though I can act radically quick-minded if I have a lot of energy. But those are moments, and not a reliable state that I'm in. Usually I'm slow, need many hours to get even basic stuff done unless I'm very familiar with it.
It's a strength but also a weakness. It's a strength because I'm often much more thorough than others, and it's a weakness because routine tasks become more complex than they necessarily need to. I'm also not a very fixated person, I have many ideas all the time and my mind is all over the place. So I'm thinking that typical entrepreneurial philosophies, "guides" and "words of wisdom", may often not work on me, I'm simply not developed to be that way.
I have courage, but also many fears. I have strong willpower, but also a lot of laziness. I'm not very reliable to work on any of the things needed to be a really tough strong, alternatively dilligent and dedicated, entrepreneur, the kind of character that I need to be. I believe that it's simply unrealistic that I should change much, it simply doesn't work with me. So I believe I need a philosophy of entrepreneurship that I can work with, something that tells me how to optimally use the strengths, and optimally avoid suffering from the many weaknesses, that I have, and that make traditional methods of success challenging.
Strengths: I'm good at presentations, good at keeping group moral, good at planning, good at seeing solutions (given they are not overly technical) and generally very rational (good at optimalization tasks in general).
Weaknesses: somewhat lazy, kinda slow, need a lot of variation, easily bored, unreliable at technical tasks and not good at pressure.
Any help to get? All help is welcome, even wrong help. I'm looking for inspiration. This is my future we're talking about, and I need a way to save it from doom.
I'm not so much talking about limits, as I'm talking about working around those limits you already possess. I really dream about becoming an entrepreneur, and creating an empire of small game development studios where I can spread by ideas about good game development and be part in multitudes of artistic projects. I believe this is a strength of mine, and it's what I'm aiming towards becoming and realising in myself.
But game development is a hard, a tough, business. The battle for customers is fierce, the risk involved is high, and the returns may or may not be high however much labour you put in to it. I'm not a very quick-minded person, usually, though I can act radically quick-minded if I have a lot of energy. But those are moments, and not a reliable state that I'm in. Usually I'm slow, need many hours to get even basic stuff done unless I'm very familiar with it.
It's a strength but also a weakness. It's a strength because I'm often much more thorough than others, and it's a weakness because routine tasks become more complex than they necessarily need to. I'm also not a very fixated person, I have many ideas all the time and my mind is all over the place. So I'm thinking that typical entrepreneurial philosophies, "guides" and "words of wisdom", may often not work on me, I'm simply not developed to be that way.
I have courage, but also many fears. I have strong willpower, but also a lot of laziness. I'm not very reliable to work on any of the things needed to be a really tough strong, alternatively dilligent and dedicated, entrepreneur, the kind of character that I need to be. I believe that it's simply unrealistic that I should change much, it simply doesn't work with me. So I believe I need a philosophy of entrepreneurship that I can work with, something that tells me how to optimally use the strengths, and optimally avoid suffering from the many weaknesses, that I have, and that make traditional methods of success challenging.
Strengths: I'm good at presentations, good at keeping group moral, good at planning, good at seeing solutions (given they are not overly technical) and generally very rational (good at optimalization tasks in general).
Weaknesses: somewhat lazy, kinda slow, need a lot of variation, easily bored, unreliable at technical tasks and not good at pressure.
Any help to get? All help is welcome, even wrong help. I'm looking for inspiration. This is my future we're talking about, and I need a way to save it from doom.