Andy Frisella’s math: for would-be entrepreneurs. Out of a random sample of 100 people:
- 70% are pussies. They don’t want to put in the work. They just want the reward. They quit early. These are the tippy-tap people who don’t hammer the nail all the fucking way into the fucking wood.
- 20% aren’t lazy. They work. But they can’t handle obstacles. The first obstacle they hit takes them out.
- 8% work hard. They can take a hard blow and keep going. But the day-to-day grind slacks off over time. They don’t have the discipline to execute every day. They stop executing, whether out of boredom or being pulled by the first taste of success.
- 2%. That’s who is left over.
Be in the 2%.
You may quibble with the numbers but the filters are real and I think his order of magnitude ranking is correct.
Execute. Keep executing. Don’t quit.
I rate myself flipping back and forth between the 8% and the 2%. On the other hand the fact that I’m still cranking 30 years later tells me I trend more to the 2%. But wow I have my moments in the eight.