Kenton- A great post- a spot on analysis and as someone just entering a new stage of entrepreneurialism with my new venture that I started by bootstrapping with my own money- people are telling me don’t use your own money. Get investors. Well I will be also, but I saw this as an investment in my own self growth and so failure would mean growth. So really I can’t lose, I feel blessed and fulfilled every day doing something that resonates with my core values FAR more than the shenanigans I experienced in the Coporate World. So being an entrepreneur is keeping me sharp! And my love of skiing and heli skiing of course.
An elite IFMGA mountain guide with a record 18 summits of Mount Everest. Mountaineer, performance coach, and keynote speaker.
Is Elon Musk the ultimate Marmite Character?? People seem to love or loath Elon Musk, with no one sitting on the fence. Having just started reading Isaacson's wonderful biography I already feel compelled to write a short post. I should admit now that I've been a Musk fan since I first met him at the Explorers Club dinner over 10 years ago, we exchanged only a few words but they made a big impact on me. I found myself fascinated by a man that I had never heard of give a presentation on failure (at the time Tesla was near bankruptcy and SpaceX simply wasn't working for him). This was something new to me, most keynotes at the time were focused on success. I came home thinking I'd met a true visionary game changer!! BUT whether you like Marmite or not there are aspects of this book that will resonate. Musk's attraction to risk being just one of them. The author explains that Musk only really comes 'alive' when he is risking all, his back against the wall, it's then that his drive and focus kicks in. In the Keynotes that I deliver I often refer to the benefits of embracing risk, asking the question to audiences 'what keeps you sharp on a daily basis?' In the mountains the answer is an easy one, the constant vigilance required to stay alive. Now reading Musk's biography I see there truly is a related equivalent outside of the mountains. But not everyone puts everything on the line in business, not everyone is an entrepreneur where failure is real, for most of us we have relatively safe and secure jobs, so let me leave the question here...... 'WHAT KEEPS YOU SHARP?' In Cool Company #keynote #risk #entrepreneur #