I’m writing a bigger written piece which will probably be done over the next couple of days. It’s meant to be a mental health toolkit article for SaaS/startup founders. Here’s a preview:
Yes, we all know that it’s about running a marathon, not a sprint. “So put your marathon shoes on and…” — et cetera et cetera.
We like abstract advice because we can:
- Understand whatever we want
- Apply “whatever we want to understand” to our situation
- We don’t apply it to a practical situation. At least not at the moment
The only problem with abstract advice given without practical implementations is that we may apply it to the wrong situation.
Let’s talk about this piece of advice — in the practical sense.
Why would we do that? Because when it’s not applied properly, people are self-harming thinking “it’s a marathon, not a sprint”.
The idea that needs to stay inside a startup founders’ mind is that the marathon and sprint analogies are interchangeable and relative to the timeframe they’re thinking in.
It makes no sense to “put your marathon shoes” if you’re doing something like a call.
It does make sense for a startup founder to think of long-term when having the bird’s eye view — i.e. the company’s vision, her personal plans or an employee’s fit into the company for the following 18 months.
About Ch Daniel
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I currently don’t write on this blog anymore. I wrote daily for 9 months on this very blog, but now I’m focused on building the CH Group.
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