GSRTC Mechanic (Provisional) Selection – Waiting List 2022

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You will be lonely most of the time Business Tip

 Don’t. It is the most difficult thing you’ll ever do in your life. Here are a few reasons

• You will be lonely most of the time,
• Your loved ones will hate you,
• Your friends will pull you down,
• You’ll cry at nights,
• You will fail. A lot,
• The reward will be much less than what you work for and,
• 90% of what you do will not be seen by anyone. Do you want all that effort to go unnoticed?

Okay, now that the warnings are out of the way let’s answer your question,

Starting a business requires a recipe and here are the ingredients,

1. VISION

Every business starts with an idea. But notice that I didn’t write the word ‘IDEA’ in bold but ‘VISION’ because idea does not matter, your vision does. Let me tell you a little secret: Your idea is not unique. Chances are, someone has already done something about your idea and has a finished product. But let me tell you another secret: Your vision is unique. What you do with the idea makes all the difference aka your vision. No one can come close to the vision you have with your idea. Focus on the vision, not the idea. Protect your vision and sell the idea.

2. RESEARCH

You have a great idea and a great vision to go with it, great. You have done 0.0000001% of the work. Next comes research. This is probably one of the most important ingredient as it defines the direction your business will go. Do market research, a lot of it, every day and know your consumer base. Don’t ask random people whether your idea will work or not because they don’t know. They are as clueless as you. Ask that one friend who is always brutal and let him/her visualize your idea fully and get his feedback instead. Do a lot of research on your own and see similar businesses in your area and see how they are doing and what makes you different. The last thing you want is to create a product no one needs.

3. TEAM

If you think you are going to have a one-man show then I have some bad news for you. Don’t start alone. Find people and reach out to them. Be shameless in asking for their help. Most will leave you after wasting some of your time but it’s all part of the process. Keep moving from one co-founder to another and eventually you will find that one guy who is your soulmate. Build a great team that shares the same vision as your’s. Debate over the idea and look into it from someone else’s perspective.

4. LEARN

Business is a form of art and should be treated as such. Learn everything you can that will help you in developing a great business. Read books, listen to podcasts and follow mentors. The more you work on yourself, the more clear you are with your vision.

5. IGNITION

Start. Wherever you are, just start. Don’t wait for the perfect moment, it will never come. Take small steps, you are still a beginner. Make little improvements everyday and gain momentum.

6. MVP

Build a product, any product. Don’t try to make a it perfect, just build it and launch it in the market. Get user feedback and improve. Introduce a working model and let the public roast you. Learn what works and what doesn’t. Make changes accordingly.

7. WORD OF MOUTH

Do you know the best form of marketing? Referrals. Not only the best but also the cheapest. Get the word out as much as you can buy asking your customers to recommend you to their friends and friends of friends. Give them something in return like a gift card and they will happily market you. Win/Win for everyone.

8. BE COMPETITIVE

Be competitive in something. Price, quality, experience, service it doesn’t matter. If you can’t differentiate yourself neither can the consumers.

9. INVEST

Either you are bootstrapping your venture or you are getting funded by a VC, always invest the money you have in the right place. Make each dollar count.

10. MICROSOFT EXCEL

Know your numbers. Study and read finance. Your business can be the coolest in the world but it still needs to fill the boring old spreadsheets.

11. FOLLOW GEORGE WASHINGTON

Scale your business fast. The sooner your start earning money from your business the better. Keep improving your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) along the way. Keep your profits high and increase your consumer base as much as you can. Don’t forget old customers in the way, they are more likely to purchase from you again. Market your product and advertise it in every possible medium (Just not T-shirts and baseball caps).

12. THE BIGGER PICTURE

This again goes back to the first ingredient. Don’t forget your vision along the way and stick to it. Pivot in your execution but not in a validated vision. A lot of companies did that and they failed. Build a brand image and let the world know what you stand for. A bad image is better than having none.

Good Luck!

Edit: All the points and information mentioned in this answer are based on my personal observations, knowledge, and experiences.

There is a lot of skills and knowledge

 There is a lot of skills and knowledge one learns in higher education which is difficult to make up for if you do not take it.

You are confronted with a myriad of ideas and concepts, you are forced to think critically, and redraft redraft redraft.

Sure, there are dumb people who go to college. Sure there are smart people who dont. There are usually outliers. But regardless you learn a lot about the world you just wouldnt otherwise gain a true understanding of. You pick up important lifeskills, and even though there is a lot more for you to learn even once youve finished higher education, you will be able to continue drawing off of this background and these life-skills.

Stupid is also a relative term. Einstein would be stupid compared to “the supreme galactic intelligence.” Even a naturally gifted person can become stupid if they become complacent and don’t expand themselves and their knowledge base.

The thing about having more education — you end up knowing more. You can connect things better and more intrinsically. You can pick apart details and misinformation better. Granted there are some limitations based on the individual and their breadth of study, but this is in general terms.

We go to doctors for healthcare. We go to climate scientists for understanding the climate. We go to farmers for farming. We seek out people who are better informed on issues to have clearer insights into them. If you never recieve higher education, then naturally you are probably missing out and competing beneath the level of your peers.

Or putting another way, it’s like being in the first 10 levels of a rank-based game. You never leave and you never learn deeper skillsets. You never learn deeper tactics. You never learn about larger strategies. Occasionally you get a lucky drop, but you dont know how to use it. You may even mistake it for being useless and discard it. You simply lack experience in many aspects of the game. — then you compare this with a pro-player. Someone who competes in tournaments. This player has likely read numerous strategy books on top of having inate understandings of the game. They understand the deep fundamentals in the game. They understand how all the actions work and how to truly evaluate what is useful and worthwhile. That same item the former player discarded, not comprehending how to use it, this player turns into a top-tier weapon. They use this information and their at a much higher level.

Of course a pro and a noob are extremes. But you typically spend at least 4 years in undergraduate education. 4 years someone without that education doesnt have. 4 years of tear-your-hair-out assignments, tests, essays, thought problems, practicals. Youre forced to use your head a lot and in deep and greatly varied ways that you dont get otherwise. The years of higher education serve as an important and dynamic foundation. And sure, you might learn things which you won’t directly find useful. But you also did more than learn those things themselves, you learned how to think at a higher level and how to make many new connexions and revisions and apply those dynamics even in very different circumstances.

Tl;dr — higher education is education. And its as difficult to go back to ignorance, perhaps even more difficult, than it is to see ahead regarding how far behind you are. A wise saying: the more you know, the more you know you don’t know. The more you know the more you know there is to learn. And the higher the standards you hold yourself to.

Protip: there are plenty of people who arent “liberal” who think this. True, educated people tend to be liberal due to their wide experiences and exposure. But there are educated moderates and old-fashion conservatives. These people also typically oppose trump, and arent “liberals.” Also, trump talks like a drunk fourth grader, consistently lies, doesnt understand his office or the affairs of the country, makes fun of his own base. He acts utterly petulant. He’s the kind of person no sane, thinking person should have voted for at any time for such an office. The world laughs at america. Many voters voted simply out of spite and malice/fearmongering tribalism coupled with ignorance of the issues. This is unacceptable for anyone actually looking out for the country and it’s citizens.