under the desk so if you're giving NUMBER_TOKEN you're it's already hard enough to succeed giving NUMBER_TOKEN yeah so you're really setting yourself up to failure but i think there's this weird thing where entrepreneurs find it impressive to some some entrepreneurs find it impressive to list multiple businesses that they're doing and i swear if i hear an entrepreneur come to me with an idea and they've also got another thing they're doing i'm immediately deeply unimpressed by them because i think they've got this focus problem um and maybe they're you know like maybe they sat down and tried to think of a business idea and for me like when business ideas don't come from some type of inspiration when they're literally just contrived from i'm going to try and think of a business idea i think that it's typically more difficult i think like some form of inspiration even if it's a small thing of inspiration as a it's integral to success and creating something unique um but yeah that's another thing that irritates me about i i i i get just as irritated by that the times when you have to push on through that barrier and if you've got three things going and one of them is an easier journey that's where you're going to focus yourself when in fact the that is the absolute time that you need to be completely focused on on on crashing through that wall that you've come up against and and that's where the best inspiration i ever had and sometimes actually looking back the most exciting times i ever had in my business were when my back was absolutely against the one thing this is going down this is going down and bizarrely i found that quite invigorating um when everything is going incredibly well there were times when i think everything's going very well everyone's doing their job frankly i could be here and not be here it doesn't make much difference um in terms of skills as well as an entrepreneur you i heard you talk about public speaking being integral to you did public speaking at university i did i did a lot of public speaking at university and a lot of debating and the skill i think that's important is the ability to be able to persuade people of your ideas not necessarily public speaking but in every meeting that you go to you need to be able to look people in the eye and convince them that your idea is right and and that could be in a sales role it could be sitting around a table with a bunch of developers and one of them saying i think this is the right way forward if you can't articulate yourself properly then you're never going to be listened to and that's a skill that i think is is um uh it's being recognized in schools i do a lot in education now so i i see now more and more they recognize that that's a skill that is really important that people should be able to look someone in the eye and be able to explain yourself very very coherently i i tend to actually believe i'd go one step further and think i can't think of a more important skill in life and business then we i call i refer to it as sales because and we think of sales we think of trying to get cash out of someone else's pocket by giving them something but
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