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In the last Leonardo da Vinci’s biography written by Walter Isaacson (who is also the author of the Steve Jobs biography, 2011), we can see that he was an extremely curious man. This curiosity allowed him to explore several different areas, boost his creativity and make a huge contribution to art. But the downside is that he kept changing projects.

Because of this, Leonardo da Vinci left a mind-blowing number of unfinished works of art. There are several scientific fields where he could have advanced the humanity of 2 centuries, if he worked more and published his results.

Attitude

This show us that we all have different attitudes to things that interest us, to our projects. We can explore something because we want to know how it works or master it to improve our lifestyle.

Attitude is very important in life. For example when you do something you like, you don’t have the same attitude as for something you like moderately or not at all. The last project you did, did you give the best of yourself to the end or not ? The question is whether you’re aware of the mission you want to accomplish through the project.

Mission

In a project, the mission, the goal is essential. There are many people around me who say they want to be successful. They say things like : « Yes, I want to be successful, if I find success around the corner, I would not say no. It would be cool ». But that doesn’t happen like that. To succeed in a mission, it’s necessary to give the best of oneself. And it can take many years, so don’t be naive. With internet, there is a myth that makes everyone believe that in 2-3 years we can be a millionaire, that’s wrong.

When I created my blog, I had friends who also had their blog or YouTube channel, but they all stopped. We didn’t have the same mission and the same attitude when we started. You can see in the top left of my blog this sentence : « I’m building my legacy ». This is my mission.

It’s really good to be curious, but once you’ve found something that interests you, focus on it. Work on this passion in « Guerrilla » mode to develop it, because it will become your main source of income. When I say « Guerrilla », it means that you give the best of yourself. You want to know what skill you have to learn, you want to learn from the best players in the field, you do tests to innovate, etc.

With a definite mission, a « Guerrilla » attitude and patience, you’ll have the success you deserve in your project.

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I watched an Olivier Roland’s video and I learned good stuff.

I read an article about Otzi, a man who died about 3255 or 3300 BCE. It’s been over 5000 years. Otzi is the name given to a frozen and dehydrated human being discovered on 19 September 1991 at an altitude of 3210 meters nears Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. Otzi discovered with his axe in wooden handle and a copper blade. But why a copper blade because copper is soft ?

Apart from gold, the first metal used by men to make tools was cooper. It’s just because at the time, they didn’t know that by adding tin, it made a stronger alloy, bronze.

Now, it seems obvious to people with knowledge of metallurgy but for a long time nobody knew this alloy.

What I mean is that we’re all ignorant of something. This may be something that a small minority of the population knows or something everyone knows. I’m talking about it in a broad sense, it goes to confidential discoveries to widespread discoveries. We’re ignorant of many of these discoveries, no matter how popular these discoveries are.

Here is an example. Since 1977, it has been scientifically proven that when you make a request to a person (no matter the demand), if you touch the forearm or the shoulder of this person, you can even double your chance that the person tells you « yes ». There are still plenty of people who don’t know this and there are also people who know that but don’t use it. When you become aware of this, you realize that staying alone in you corner doesn’t help you to know the discoveries that there are in the world. And over time, you’ll become the last person to know what everyone starts to learn.

Stay in touch with innovations/discoveries

What is important to understand for an entrepreneur is that it’s a duty, a philosophy and a way of life to always be in touch with innovations in the scientific field and also in other fields.

Today, there are many techniques or methods that have been used and proven in thousands of sectors to sell effectively on internet. What I find amazing is that there are still a lot of entrepreneurs who don’t know that selling their products on internet is possible. It’s almost a malpractice of theirs because they cut themselves off from an enormous potential for growth.

We all know people who have recently learned things that everyone knew. We have already discovered something and realize that everyone already knew that (or almost).

What is necessary for you to be successful in the long term and build your legacy is that you need to be constantly on a process of meeting people in your field and outside of your field to learn all the time from new things. Which means that you have to read books, follow trainings, follow Youtube educational channel. You also have to go to place to meet people who inspire you and people who motivate you.

Think about it : « If you’re always in a room where you’re the smartest person, you’re in the wrong room ». It may work for a while, but soon you will not evolve and during this time, the world is moving very fast. Be part of the people who take a few steps forward to learn and execute new things and let others stand-still.

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-Steph

I watched an Oliver Roland’s video and I learned good stuff

My Moment Of Clarity

In 2013 I realized that I was more afraid of success than being homeless. I went to another city for a job opportunity but it didn’t work. For several months, I spent my day with homeless people, illegals immigrants, good-for nothing people and drug addicts. All type of people that society puts aside and forgetting.

At first, I didn’t like this situation but over time I adapted and they accepted me. Now I think about it, I really learned to be a hustler with them. I mainly earned money with people from Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Congo, etc.) and people from Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Poland, Russia, etc). Often I was fighting on the street because people thought I was a nice little black boy. I train everyday at the gym. I ate 5 times a day. I had my laptop and I had 2 prepaid mobile phone.

But most of all, I felt free because I didn’t have a lot of bills to pay at the end of the month and I still had cash. There was not a days when my bank account was in the red and I promise you that it’s good.

Success in my team

In my team, there was a Congolese (I don’t say his name because he was a illegal immigrants). He had 4 children with 2 different women in another country and at the end of each month he asked me to have ideas to make more money. He was fed up with this situation, fed up with receiving welfare money that treated him like shit. He wanted to return to Congo and create a company. Now it’s cool, he has a good situation in Congo.

There was a Senegalese. He had a wife, a child and he worked at the airport. One day he lost his job at the airport and I don’t know all the details, but he lost everything. He couldn’t find work and his wife left him and kept the child. His wife didn’t want him to see his child, but she asked him for money. You see, a classic story.

This Senegalese told me that he needed more money because he was fed up with welfare that treated him as an illegal immigrant while he worked and paid his taxes like everyone else. He wanted more money to return to Senegal and start his own company. We worked well together and now he as a good situation in Senegal.

A few days after he left for Senegal, I watched a Gary Vaynerchuk’s video about building a legacy. Boom, I realized that I was more afraid of being rich that being poor because all my childhood I was in a middle classe environment or lower what had become my comfort zone. And my father often told me that I could never be rich.

Fear of success

With my blog, I see that on internet, there are people who could have more success but they blocked. They’re stuck because of their state of mind because technically they are competent.

There are bloggers who have a good traffic and an email list that grew from day to day but as soon as they have to offer a paid service/product, they block.

This blockage is the fear of success. The fear of success is a fear of change. Definitely leaving the comfort zone for something else. If you succeed you will make more money but it will also change your life outside and the perception of yourself.

To be afraid is not something bad because it allows us to be attentive to everything, to have all our senses at their maximum capacity. You need to be attentive to everything when you’re in a unknown area.

Fear of failure is embedded in fear of success

But when you’re afraid of success, you are not only afraid of success. There are other fears that add to the fear of success. With the fear of success, you are also afraid of failure.

Think seriously about that. When you feel that you will succeed, it also means that you may fail. The worst time to fail is when you think you can succeed because it’s more painful. It more painful that doing something that is lost in advance.

It’s really comfortable to stay in your comfort zone, complain and do nothing.

This is the end of the 1^st part. In 2^nd part, I would speak about the fear of rejection which is also in the fear of success.

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-Steph

I watched an Olivier Roland’s video and there is good stuff.

A lot of young and less young (30-50 years old) still don’t know what they want in life. It’s not something essential to succeed in life and be happy. But read this Seneca’s quote: « If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable ». Life can be more interesting when we know what we want to accomplish. When you take your car, before to go in your car, you know your destination. Do you already used your car without knowing the destination ?

I think it’s important that people know what they want accompish in life, what they want leave as inheritance or legacy. To do this, we need to find our passion, a passion that drive you to be better than yesterday.

I know people used different exercices to find their passion but they found nothing, it’s a failure and they’re frustrated. In my opinion, these people have just an exploration problem.

Exporation

Exlpore several activities is a great way to find a passion. It’s simple, how do you know you like an activity, if you have never tried this. May be you are an archery olympic champion but how do you know if you have never tried archery ?

I encourage you to do new activites, meet people, discuss with them and pratices to decrease the number of activites you don’t know. The truth is that your passion will not come to seek you.

Exlpore new activies, it’s good but don’t become addicted to exporation’s phase.

In a passion, there is 3 steps :

Exploration phase

It’a like when we fall in love, everything is awesome, everything is beautiful.
Dry period phase

For most people, it’s in this phase that they abandon. The enthusiasm of the beginning diminishes enormously. We spend a lot of energy for little result compared to a person who has done the same thing for 3-5 years.

And it’s also in this phase where we must be careful to not be addicted to the exploration phase. For people who don’t like the dry period phase, they will find several excuses to change activity instead of holding on until to have good results.
Consecration phase

It’s at this moment that we harvest the seeds that we sowed and generally success always exceeds us.

Project

Once we found a passion, have a project around this passion allow us to become a better version or ourselves. This project will allow us to get out of our comfort zone, to give the better or ourselves because we really want to succeed. The ideal is to combine a passion, skill and economic potential if you want to become an entrepreneur.

To test your project, I advise you to use « Lean startup » by experimenting in the field using little time, energy and money.

What is your last activity that you did and that you liked ? Do you plan a project with ?

-Steph