Feed Your Brain Is Important

2019-03-242018-08-10 by Steph

What’s up ? This is THE stephane ANDRE. I watched an Olivier Roland’s video and I learned some good stuff.

To be successful in the areas that interest you, there is an important principle that is to nourish your brain in a healthy way. It’s the same principle for your body. If you eat fast food burgers every day, you’ll become fat, your self- esteem will decrease, your energy will decrease, your libido will decrease and your lifetime will decrease.

If you feed your brain every day with the « burgers » of information, I mean news (newspaper and tv), you’ll have a negative state of mind. The information of these newspapers or these media are 95% negative and 80% of this information, you’ll forget them in 15 days. These are events where you have no impact on it, it uses your brain’s energy for noting and because of this negative information, you become more and more worried.

Good food for the brain

The most efficient and accessible way is to read books of excellent quality. When you read books of excellent quality, you have access to the best brains in the world for an affordable price, or even free if you go to a library. With books, you also have access to the best dead brains. It’s not because the person is dead that this person has to stop giving us value.

Purpose of reading these books is to allow you to have a solid foundation for achieving your goals. To start, you need to create a list of books and use the SMART goal method (SMART => specific, measurable, accessible, realistic and defined over time). If you want more detail, go to a search engine like Google of DuckDuckGo and enter : SMART goal.

For example, you can give yourself the goal of reading a book a month. I advise you to write a summary page for all the books you read. Scientific studies have shown that when you write the summary, you will remember more things and you will memorize more things than if you only read the book. Here are 2 scientific studies here and there .

Check the book’s quality

To start, reading reviews on books that interest you on Amazon is a good place to start. It’s clear that it’s not done by experts but you can see people who like and hate the book. It’s up to you to do your own analysis of the numbers of positive and negative comments. If there are a lot of comments (at least a hundred), it’s a good sign.

It’s possible to access lists of books complied by people who read a lot of books. It’s obvious that these lists will never correspond at 100% to your objectives but it allows you to find pearls. If you want to train in business and personal development, Josh Kaufman’s Personal MBA is excellent. It’s not necessary to like all the books of Personal MBA but most are extraordinary.

Action

Here is a simple exercise that I propose to you. Find 5-10 books of excellent quality that can help you achieve important goals for you. Determine a deadline (1 year) and calculate how many books you should read per month and how much time you have to spend every day reading.

I’m curious to know the books you found. Share this in the comments section and let’s go .

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-Steph

Schools To Be An Entrepreneur

2017-12-15 by Steph

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

There are schools with specific courses about entrepreneurship. But several studies show that only 10% of students create their own companies. The vast majority go looking for a job.

It’s possible that these students create their own companies 5 or 10 years later but these are statistics that are hard to get.

It’s possible that these students start their company 5 or 10 years later, but these statistics are hard to have.

Look this podcast about « How should Business Schools prepare students for startup ? ».

What is interesting is to talk to entrepreneurs and to see that the vast majority of them have never studied at a school about entrepreneurship.

Being an entrepreneur is like any other exciting job, we always keep learning. Being an entrepreneur is a mission of life and it’s necessary to become better day after day.

If there is no effective school to learn entrepreneurship, we know that there is a curriculum to be a businessman.

MBA

MBA (Master of Business Administration) is a huge curriculum. It’s often 1-2 years of your life after a professional experience. Which means that for 1-2 years, you don’t earn a salary. And it should be added that a MBA costs between $ 50 000.- and $ 100 000.-. You see, you really need to be motivated to do it.

It’s clear that having a MBA make it possible to have a better salary, it also helps to have knowledge in business but there are interesting critics on the results obtained on the field.

A MBA shows your employers that you’re able to sacrifice your life for your job. During a MBA, you work 70-80 hours a week to get it, which means that you’re able to do the same hours per week for your employer.

A MBA helps to create a network, but now with internet, there is another way to create a network. Interesting people don’t look for people who was in the best schools, they are looking for people who have projects and who shows that they’re capable to realize their projects.

Among the people who have negative reviews on MBA, we can find Seth Godin. Seth Godin is a well-know author and marketing expert in USA. He has a MBA from Standford and quotes : « Having A MBA is learning the best techniques for running a company in the 1990s for 2 years, while the world runs as fast as it can ».

We also have Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is the co-founder of PayPay and Palantir and he’s the first external investor for Facebook. He has a MBA and he’s not satisfied with the results he obtained on the field.

What is certain is that a MBA is not really about creating entrepreneurs but about creating good employees able to run a company of the 1990s.

At the moment, there is no effective school in the world to learn to be a good entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur is a state of mind and a decision of life. It’s all learned on the field, reading books and talking to more experienced entrepreneurs.

There is an interesting book « The Personal MBA » that lets you learn the basics of a MBA without spending 1-2 years of your life without pay working 70-80 hours per week and saving between $ 50 000.- and $ 100 000.-. All this only by reading this book.

But I’m open-minded and it’s possible that someone took a course on entrepreneurship in a school. If that’s your case, it would be cool if you shared the experience you had in school and how it helped you to create and grow your company.

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Being An Entrepreneur Is Being A Student

2017-04-24 by Steph

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

I see a lot of entrepreneurs make this mistake. They create their companies based only on their technical skills. A good baker who create his/her own company is a excellent start but we must not forget the second part of the equation. When you create a company, you need to learn a second job, entrepreneur (CEO and manager).

Technical skills aren’t the same as the entrepreneur’s skills. A person can be very good technically in his/her job and bad as an entrepreneur. It’s important to spend time learning entreprenarial skills needed to avoid bankruptcy.

To be seriously trained as an entrepreneur is important. I think in your country there are mandatory training course for business start-up. Unfortunately, these courses last only a few days and it’s not enough.

It’s true that it’s complicated because there are no good academic trainings on entrepreneurship. By example successful business rate created by business school students is about 10 %.

Books

I think it’s possible to train ourselves at the core of entrepreunarial skills with books. The Personal MBA’s list is a good start.

Did you see, the list is long. I advise to read these 3 books to start more easily.

« The 4 Hours Workweek » is a way of seeing entrepreneurship in another way. This book breaks the codes and allows you to have a more open mind to have more opportunity.

The Personal MBA is a summary of the essentials of what you need to know to build your company. The book is excellent but the problem is that it lacks coherence, which makes is a bit difficult to imagine how to use these concepts in your company. But don’t worry because with this book you’ll have the theoretical knowledge that 90 % of entrepreneur don’t have.

« The Ultimate Sales Machine » explains how to set up an effective system for sale in your company.

With books, you can have acces to the best brains for cheap, it’s cool.

Meet others entrepreneurs

To create opportunities for you, I advise you to meet creation of company’s organizations in your city.

The ideal is to make a combination of books, training (online and offline) and meet entrepreneurs. It’s a mix of theory and execution. You know, you can have all the theory of the world, if you don’t act, you will not able to change things. This is why that it’s motivating to meet entrepreneurs, precisely entrepreneurs who are more successful than you so that you can always remain motivated despite obstacles.

It’s like in sport, all athletes want to become world champion or Olympic champion. Having this state of mind in entrepreneurship is excellent. I hope you want to become the best in your market.

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-Steph