Clueless Dreamers Unite (Story of Game Elite, Part 7/10)
Channel: Andrew Hicks
Date: 2020-08-23

Around age 18, I formed an "entrepreneurial" partnership with a dude I met online from New York. 

(Entrepreneurial in quotes because we had no idea what we were doing, and didn't even have an idea that we didn't know what we were doing)

Phil and I decided to move in together to take Game Elite (my first Big Dream, which was now Phil's Big Dream too) to the next level. 

I was the idea guy, the orchestrator. 

Phil was the web design extraordinaire. 

Together, we made the switch from GEO being a Tripod site, to having our own domain (seemed like a big deal at the time).

I remember being nervous about meeting him in person. He responded by saying, "Don't worry, man, I ain't lookin' to f*ck you." Guess that was reassuring. 

At the time, I lived with my parents. It amuses me to no end trying to remember what it was like talking my parents into letting a dude from the Internet move in with us so we could grow a business.

Our arrangement didn't survive for even a whole month before Phil headed back to NY. 

Why? Well, possibly because we had too much fun but didn't get much done, and Phil may have realized (before I did) that big dreams need more than grandiose intentions and great ideas to reach fruition.

It was like if I were an incompetent, less brilliant version of Steve Jobs.

If Steve Jobs ran a party bus. A party bus on fire.

And Phil was like Steve Wozniak, but not about to stick around on a flaming bus.

Moral of the story: Taking big actions toward big dreams = good.

But don't forget to develop self-discipline, skills, and clear plans needed to do the thing that needs be done.

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