Eric Thomas

And you may not feel qualified.

You may not feel like you are educated enough.

You may not feel like you're connected enough.

You may not think that enough people are aware of you, cognizant of you, because you don't have a blue check and you're not a celebrity yet.

But you got to work hard and silence.

You gotta work when nobody's watching.

I will do the work when I'm tired.

I will do the work even if I'm sick.

I will do the work even if I didn't sleep well.

I will do the work even if I don't feel like it.

I will do the work if it's cold outside.

I will do the work if it's too hot.

I will do the work if no one else wants to do it with me because I am driven by purpose.

People wanna, they wanna jump from day one to day 10 by getting some big seed money or big investment.

And dude, I don't care how much money I've made.

I try to pretend like I'm broke every single day in the way that I think because it forces me to create new solutions and innovate in my brain.

It's about taking an idea.

It's about executing on the idea.

And it's not about having the perfect plan.

It's about your ability to adjust and create and improvise your way through this path.