Are You A Faker Or A Maker?
To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be a maker… not a faker.
I strongly believe that America’s educational system (and maybe elsewhere in the world) encourages faker mentality. The idea that success is wrapped up in perception, not performance.
So, many of us get trained from the very beginning that what’s important are things like getting an A on an exam or paper. Well, if my experiences are like anyone else’s, my grades rarely tracked my effort. I mean, sure, I had to at least go through the motions and show a certain level of competence, but at the end of the day, the behavior that was consistently rewarded throughout my educational experience was my ability to “fake it” – to make the professor think that I understood the material. Or, to make my parents think I was smart by getting good grades. Good grades which were conditional on establishing the right perception in the Professors mind.
Anyway, I think you get the idea. But this gets more serious when you consider how these behaviors become habits. Pretty soon, if we are not careful, we become fakers… and it can trickle into our professional lives. It becomes a dependency. And we can end up making our living through smooth talking and false promises rather than real solid productive work.
As a side note, I actually think this “faker” epidemic is one of the root causes of our current economic troubles. Too many people fake themselves and their banks into thinking they can afford more of a home than they really can. Just the same, too many people faked their way into thinking that bullshit assets could somehow be made valuable.
Anyway, this brings me to the point I wanted to make. A successful entrepreneur should commit to becoming a maker and avoid the easy temptation of being a faker. Buckle down and do the hard work. Stop the smooth talking. Stop the false promises. Look reality in the face and do what needs to be done.
Otherwise, you just might spend your life running away from responsibility and propping up a permanent facade.
Be a maker. Take pride in being productive.
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