{"id":607,"date":"2010-03-19T01:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=607"},"modified":"2010-03-19T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T05:05:38","slug":"my-new-business-model-get-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"My new business model: Get lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was daydreaming today of all the businesses I’d like to start if only I had enough money to hire other people to do all the work, I got to thinking… nobody really knows<\/em> how to succeed, do they?<\/p>\n

In my last post, I said my dream was to own a theme park.\u00a0 But how many people who achieve their dreams1<\/sup> were really working toward them their entire life?\u00a0 It seems like the super rich and famous just kind of fall into place.\u00a0 They really have no idea how they got there.\u00a0 They can say generic things like “attitude is everything” and “don’t be stupid with your investments,” but there’s still no objective science to the process.\u00a0 There are still no specific steps one takes.\u00a0 Really, you just do whatever you want while being as smart about it as you can.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I can really claim to have a “business model” since I don’t have a business, but if I ever do, I will probably think in terms of luck.\u00a0 That’s not to say I wouldn’t try to be smart in my decisions, but I wouldn’t get too hung up on trying to understand how to dominate the market, how to become as huge as Disney or Microsoft or Google.\u00a0 It is tempting to attribute their lofty positions to the mind powers incredible business geniuses, but they’re actually the product of quite a lot of luck, of being in the right place and the right time, and<\/em> not being too<\/em> stupid.\u00a0 (Of course, after<\/em> you get that lofty, you can afford to hire geniuses to try to keep you there.)<\/p>\n

You can envy the people who win the lottery, but there’s no science to it.\u00a0 All they did to win was to play like everyone else.<\/p>\n

Finally, here’s a pretty interesting article on the art of business-ness: 10 things you won’t learn in school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has nothing to do with what I’ve just been saying, but it’s still interesting, I think.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup> And I mean big<\/em> dreams.\u00a0 If your dream is to write a novel or run a marathon, that’s something directly up to your willpower.\u00a0 Big<\/em> dreams are dreams that require certain decisions being made by other people, like whether or not to buy your book.\u00a0 You have no direct control over these decisions.\u00a0 And I hope you like my use of notes in a blog.\u00a0 It makes me feel trendy.
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