{"id":214,"date":"2016-12-02T23:52:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskrypt.co.ke\/wordpress\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-12-02T23:52:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:52:40","slug":"keeping-the-faith-i-know-a-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/2016\/12\/02\/keeping-the-faith-i-know-a-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know A Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/theskrypt.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stock-photo-let-s-get-started-man-touch-bar-search-and-two-businessman-working-at-office-desk-and-using-a-416578843-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"stock-photo-let-s-get-started-man-touch-bar-search-and-two-businessman-working-at-office-desk-and-using-a-416578843\" width=\"228\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stock-photo-let-s-get-started-man-touch-bar-search-and-two-businessman-working-at-office-desk-and-using-a-416578843-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stock-photo-let-s-get-started-man-touch-bar-search-and-two-businessman-working-at-office-desk-and-using-a-416578843.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know this guy in school who can do anything. OK, before you imagine that he is some sort of superman mutant I\u2019ll explain. He is the one person I know in my age bracket who has got it figured out. And don\u2019t get me wrong. It\u2019s not in the snake oil sales man, smoke and mirrors con artist type of way. Don\u2019t ask me what proof I have because I don\u2019t have any. Buuut, I will tell you why I think this way.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Always going out of the way to learn more about something. He, we&#8217;ll call him K, does pretty well in class, I think. (I say this without certainty though, because, while I haven&#8217;t seen any of his\u00a0transcripts, I feel that \u00a0he is always keen with his\u00a0class work. He just takes school more seriously than most people I know. ) But he\u2019s not a nerd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, you&#8217;d probably consider him a hustler. But he is legit. I remember my earlier opinion of him was pretty\u2026 meh, until we sat down one time and had a conversation about what we wanted to do in the future. It was an eye opener.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This guy was on point. He already had stuff going on that was earning him money. I wouldn\u2019t say he knows everything about everything, but his understanding of business is so extensive , I would ask him about business ventures start ups that I was considering, and he would have a lot of info\u00a0at his fingertips. Probably because he&#8217;d already thought about it or tried it himself. The pros, the cons, whether it\u2019s a saturated market or there is a niche I could exploit, or if\u00a0the idea was feasible and what it would take to make it happen at my level. such details and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he is never negative, and I think this helped. He is realistic, knows what he wants and is fearless to after it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Honestly, I am in awe of him. I wish I was like that. I wish I was as certain about what I wanted. And as fearless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was having\u00a0 a similar conversation with some other friends about\u00a0 entrepreneurship and Start-ups and we came to the unanimous conclusion (we are all business students) that the reason book- smart people almost always, end up working for companies started by people not nearly as educated as them, is because you end up knowing too much about business to ignore the risks that exist and\u00a0\u00a0therefore\u00a0 talk and\/or think yourself out of it. You get too cautious and you end up not taking the chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">K\u00a0started young, \u00a0before even business school so he wasn\u2019t smart enough\u00a0to be weary of the risks and by the time he got to our level, he had already done it enough times to not fear the risk. And I think this is something that\u2019s worked in his favor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I conclude therefore \u00a0that if I were ever to get out of the rat race and become the employer\u00a0 I had to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1.) <strong>Drop out of school<\/strong> ( Too late for this. \ud83d\ude41 as I mentioned earlier\u00a0I\u2019ve more or less finished degree. All that\u2019s left is a\u00a0 formality)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>or<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. ) <strong>Stop at degree level,<\/strong> before I lock myself away in the prison of over education by getting a doctorate or masters or something,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>or<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. ) <strong>Actively ignore all I\u2019ve learned in risk management<\/strong> class for a while,\u00a0as\u00a0I actively endeavour to become an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Knowing how many successful people today were school dropouts or were complete novices in business when they started out,\u00a0I suspect, I would be in really good company \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this guy in school who can do anything. OK, before you imagine that he is some sort of superman mutant I\u2019ll explain. 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