America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.
— Tom Morello, Guitar World Guitarist of the year interview
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This leads to a question that people must be willing to answer truthfully – How long do you suffer while enjoying the freedom to starve before you realize that in order to achieve your long term goal you must exercise that freedom to enter a subservient role in the workplace?
It's one that most entrepreneurs don't like to answer because they don't like to fail. Perhaps the sooner we accept the idea of failure in our attempts to avoid losing control as a benefit and an opportunity to know what to do right whenever you decide to try again the better off we'll be. For some, the ability to not care about making a living is only available as a short term perk while they decide what they want to do next. Perhaps this year will be the one where folks are willing to put their dreams on the back burner while trying to make sure that they can see another day without a great deal of worry.
We'll see what happens though as it takes much more patience than we're normally able to muster.
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That is a very perceptive point of view, Andre. You would know better than most people what it is like to create something from scratch and make a living from it.
My one regret is to have discovered what I wanted to do at an earlier age. Perhaps then the things I want to do may be realized versus what has to be done instead.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are doing well in Birmingham.
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That is a very perceptive point of view, Andre. You would know better than most people what it is like to create something from scratch and make a living from it.
My one regret is to have discovered what I wanted to do at an earlier age. Perhaps then the things I want to do may be realized versus what has to be done instead.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are doing well in Birmingham.
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