A young entrepreneur wanted to know how to make a startup
successful. So he goes to a seminar to listen to a wise entrepreneur talk about
how he made his dreams come true.
During the presentation, the wise entrepreneur
states that rigor is the opposite of hard
work.
Afterwards the young entrepreneur spoke
with the wise entrepreneur to clarify what he meant.
The wise entrepreneur replied, “Let’s do a
challenge. I want us to do 25 pushups everyday for the next year. Are you in?”
The young entrepreneur bewildered; shrugged
his shoulders and agreed.
The young entrepreneur stayed with it for
a while. And then life happened. Bills started to pile up, family came into
town, then there was that one week where he felt under the weather, deadlines
needed to be met…the list goes on and on. To get back on track the young entrepreneur
makes up all the pushups he missed in one night.
The wise entrepreneur checks in with the young entrepreneur the
next day and asks, “How are the pushups coming?”
The young entrepreneur explains what happened, how soar he is and that
he can hardly move his shoulders.
The wise entrepreneur smiled and said “That is why rigor is the opposite of hard work.”
The wise entrepreneur smiled and said “That is why rigor is the opposite of hard work.”
