Job World VS. Entrepreneur World – Important Lesson

In today’s blog post, I’m explaining why I recorded the video above – and what I have recently learned in my coaching training.

Since I started my coaching, I’ve been updating a small group of people every day with a short message on what I learned most recently. Before, I was just writing it in our group chat here.

I decided to share my insights with you on camera to take it one step further. Every time I learn something new, I will tell you about it on camera (instead of only typing it out in the group chat).

My coaching is really about learning how I can have conversations with my clients so that I communicate to them in a way they find value.

We’ve all had this experience where we create content, or we even provide a service or product to someone, and even though our product/service solves the problem, the client may not see it!

What we find out is that many times the issue is not our service or product but it’s our communication skills.

That’s precisely why I have taken this coaching to learn how I can communicate with my clients and prospects so that they really enjoy a valuable interaction with me.

What Are The Lessons I Learned?

But I am also learning so much more, in unexpected ways, from my coaching. If you’ve been reading my updates in the group chat over the last few weeks, then you will see how many areas of my personal life and professional life are being influenced by this new coaching.

Something that keeps coming up over and over again is that:

The entrepreneurial side of this is finding the clients. The coaching side is my improved communication skills and improved service.

Something that I learned very recently in my coaching class is this:

How the school world and the job world have distorted our view of reality.

The teacher gave a really great example and I’m quoting him on this:

“If you go and study accounting, they’re not going to tell you in the first accounting class that most of the things in accounting haven’t been discovered, yet. As a matter of fact, most of the rules in accounting are very clear.”

And that’s how school works and that’s how most of the jobs work – we are given a set of rules.

1. We come into this world with the experience that everything has already been discovered.
2. The rules are very clear and we just have to learn these rules.

There are many different fields in the education and job system:

• Working with numbers
• Working with people
• Conceptual work
• Manual work

But we just pick a field that suits us and our personality, meaning we instinctively pick a field where we can learn the rules faster and where we can imitate the “right way of doing things” faster.

We are suddenly thrown into the “real world” where most of the things have not been discovered, yet when you try to make the transition into:

1. Business
2. Entrepreneurship
3. Art (I was very surprised to hear about art in this context)

This means that we can’t just learn the rules by heart and imitate people because each of us has:

1. A different personality
2. A different business
3. And a different market (or sub-market).

In this “real world,” we have to learn to experiment and fail.

Most of us kind of know this instinctively but I’ve found it very helpful to understand where my old thinking was coming from.

After studying, after going to school, after working in normal jobs, and being in this “world of rules” where it was really important for me to learn the rules very fast. And then coming into online marketing, business, and consulting, where all of a sudden, I have to figure out my own way.

I need to find a way for:

1. My business
2. Myself
3. And my clients

Understanding that I’m just switching from one reality (job world) to another (entrepreneur world), switching from one way of living and doing things to a new way of doing things, it helped me detach myself from thinking that there’s something wrong with me.

When in fact, I’m entering a new world where experimenting is much more important than just trying to learn the rules by heart.

Some things might work for others but they don’t work for us.

Another interesting statistic that I learned is that out of five experiments, on average, only one works for us. I think that is a very humbling number to know.

For most of us, if only half of the things I do work, it can already be frustrating. But now I know that if you succeed half of the time with your experiments, that means you’re actually doing great.

So the key lesson and the key takeaway for me was accepting that there are two different worlds that people work and live in:

1. One is the school- and education-based world which leads us to do great in jobs. This is where learning rules very quickly is very important and where most of the things have already been discovered and decided. We’re not experimenting here, we’re trying to work by the given rules as efficiently as we can.
2. The world of entrepreneurship, science, and art, where experimenting is everything. The key here isn’t just learning the rules, the key is doing our very own experiments and really taking note of what works for us (ourselves, our market, and our clients).

The more we experiment, the faster we get to our desired result.

I hope you have found this insight as interesting and helpful as it was for me!

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• Discuss your opportunities, and
• Identify the best next step for you and your current situation.

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