How To Become An Entrepreneur While Studying?

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Today I'm going to answer a question about, "What can I do to sharpen my entrepreneurial
skills while I am still in school?"
This question is from Jimmy.
I like that.
Jimmy.
"Hey, John."
Let me see.
Oh, it's all in the additional info.
"Basically, I had a major life altering event happened to me about 10 months ago that opened
my eyes on how I've been wasting my potential as a student.
I've maintained a 3.0 GPA, but nothing to show for.
After discovering a love of learning how to program, I have committed to, despite prolonging
graduation by two years or so, switching to computer science.
Taking on the extra debt leaves me feeling obligated to find a normal 9-5 job after college.
However, I ultimately aspire to build a name for myself, and want to develop both the entrepreneurial
and technical skills to do so.
How can I sharpen my entrepreneurial and technical skills today, so that later on down the road
in my career, be it six or seven years, I can use them to transition to a full-time
career working for myself?"
He also says, "I'm committed, John, and I hold your advice to a high regard."
Okay, that's good.
Let's talk about this a little bit.
While you're in school, you want to develop your entrepreneurial skills, if I remember
correctly.
How can you do this?
I would encourage you to—I talk about this a lot but you've got to be practicing.
You got to put things—you got to take action and the reason why I say that is because it's
important like you can read all the stuff and you can nod your head and you can say,
"Yeah, I agree with that, that makes sense."
You'd watch all these YouTube videos and be like, "Yeah.
John is the man.
I totally get what he's saying.
That is the shit right there."
And you're not doing anything, and so it doesn’t matter.
Right?
I mean I agree with a lot of people and then I don’t do anything.
I tried to be a man of action, but I'm just saying that we can all be susceptible to this.
Where I'm going is essentially this, is you want to be an entrepreneur.
Start doing entrepreneurialship.
Don't put pair for it.
Don't be like, "Oh, right.
I'm going to be a runner someday.
Let me get my perfect running shoes and let me get a nice jogging outfit, and let me read
up a bunch on running."
No.
Get out there.
Put your shoes on.
Whatever shoes you have and go hit the pavement.
Run.
That's how you become a runner.
Now, you can get all the tools and the fancy gear and your track suit later, and you can
read about it and you can get a trainer and a coach later, but what you need to do is
start taking action immediately.
If you're in school right now and you want to become an entrepreneur and you say six,
seven years down the road you want to be able to work for yourself, full time for yourself,
start doing it now.
Start doing what you can now.
It doesn't mean that you're going to have a full-time entrepreneurial job, but start
building a side business.
Figure out something.
Right?
You've read some books, I'm sure, on entrepreneurialship.
You're watching this channel.
I'm sure that you're motivated.
You said you're committed.
Here's what my challenge for you is sell something on the Internet and do it—here's my deadline
for you.
I want to see you selling something on there in two weeks.
That's a pretty aggressive deadline, but you said you're committed, so figure it out.
What can you do?
What can you sell?
Put up a site.
Put up a thing.
Sell it.
I don't care if you sell one copy or a hundred copies, but sell one copy at least.
Put up a thing.
Sell it to at least one person.
Figure out how you can do that.
That's my challenge for you.
Then take it to the next level and then keep on going down that road.
Keep on building up things, doing entrepreneurial things.
Right?
You're going to have a lot of failures along that road.
That's fine but you got to get those failures out of the way.
No one ever steps up to the plate and smacks a homerun and knocks it out of the park on
their very first try swinging the bat.
I mean hardly anyone does.
Maybe someone does, but what you don't see—you don't usually see how many swings that they've
taken and they've missed.
Be prepared.
Get up to bat as many times as possible.
If you want to be successful in six to seven years, think about how many failures you have
to go on that road to success.
I mean I'll point to my shirt that says trust to process.
Okay?
The reason why is because there's a process and you have to trust that process.
The process is that you're going to have to get up to bat so many times.
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, if you want to work for yourself, you're going
to have to take a lot of swings and you're going to have a lot of misses.
Think about the process is going to involve a lot of that.
The more of those you get out of the way.
When people are doing sales training, one of the best advices that I've heard that you
can give you a salesperson is that call people up and your goal for the day is to get 50
nos.
It changes the focus.
They're not worried about the result of actually making the sale.
Their pressure is off.
Instead, they're trying to get 50 nos.
When I coach guys on talking to the ladies and dating type of advice or picking up girls
like—I tell them, I say, "Look, look.
You got social anxiety.
Here's what you do.
Let's not make the focus like whatever, getting a number, getting a date.
The focus is just going to be simply this.
Go out and get 50 rejections from girls.
Go to the mall.
Talk to 50 girls and have them or whatever.
Just talk to them.
Just do that.
That's all your goal is."
Same thing here.
Again, you want to be an entrepreneur.
You can read about it and like I said, those guys can read all these books on dating and
stuff, but you got to get onto the field.
You got to actually do it.
Same exact thing here is that you got to get onto the field.
So yes, you're going to college.
Yes, you're still learning.
That's great but where is your side business?
Start a side business.
Like I said, my challenge for you is in two weeks, sell something on the Internet.
Who cares if you go down in flames?
In fact, if you do, you'll learn more than you will if it's super successful.
Go for it.
Take action.
Always take action.
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