This idea is simple but it will change your life.
It’s a bit odd how the biggest changes in your life seem to originate from only just a few right decisions. Which means you don’t need to be right all the time. Oftentimes you need to be right only once.
Those decisions are often high-stakes, singular bets where one right call changes the entire trajectory:
- Betting on the right startup / product
- Picking the right market / industry
- Choosing the right investor
- Marrying the right spouse
- Finding the right mentor
- Moving to the right city
- …
Most of those things are not necessarily done once.
But doing them right once is definitely enough. For life.
Two critical points here:
- People in your life, and life in general, won’t take you seriously until you’re right
- When you’re right, all those times when you were wrong suddenly don’t matter
If you’re on the cusp of something great, that’s almost the equivalent of not having anything at all. But the moment you pull it off, it suddenly becomes proof you always had it in you.
With this in mind, it’s absurd how this idea can be your ticket to commit as many mistakes as it takes if you know for a fact that you’re not stopping until you’re right. And that when it happens, none of that will matter no more.
Not only does it give you more room for cringe and repeat, it actually gives you the kind of superpower that most people -even extremely talented ones- don’t have.
I think ‘right’ takes ‘sharp’. Not talent, not hard work. More I try stuff, the more I believe talent and hard work are not it. You could be talented and you could be wrong all your life. You could be a hard worker and you could still be wrong all your life.
Sharp means eye on the goal. This road is not easy, and distractions are not negligible.
If you can just install the bigger picture, stamp it on your brain, and shut off any external validation or advice for as long as it takes till you’re right, I think that’s it. That’s what it takes in order for you to prove to yourself and the world you are something. Sometimes, this could be a few years, sometimes it takes ages. Both cases it doesn’t really matter, as long as your right is defined.
And while it’s not easy, it seems everyone who had created anything of great significance had gone through it. No way around it.