Catharine Arnston

With entrepreneurs, you do need to do a little reality test to find out, is this thing that you have as a dream that you think is going to change people's lives, is it legitimate?

Has it been used in another form?

Maybe another country for another reason?

And if you get yes, if you get to yes, then your challenge is how to take that knowledge and reinterpret it for, in this case, the American marketplace.

North America is different from China, is different from South America.

So you have to be prepared to...

know that you have a lot of work to do.

And not be dismayed by it, but be fueled by it, by the challenge of, look it, I did it.

Somebody gets it.

Yeah.

Well, the leap of faith was huge, and it was

I'm just explaining what happened to me.

And so there was this little voice inside me that just said, you got to do something about this.

I had, remember, I had no money, no education, but I just felt compelled to follow this little voice.

And the trouble is,

we are, there's so much noise in the marketplace and there's so many expectations of your friends, your parents, your fellow entrepreneurs, the, you know, the government, the economy, and it's really easy to get pulled in so many different directions that you ultimately don't go anywhere.

You, you, you get into a freeze state.

And so my suggestion for those who are interested in following the way I did it was just turn everything off.

Don't listen to anybody for any reason except yourself.

But be aware that you have to listen closely to what makes you feel peaceful and joyful and energized and not from an egotistical way.