Going door-to-door as teenage evangelist taught me the secret of entrepreneurship
Dec20
You can learn useful entrepreneurial skills in all sorts of odd places. My training ground was the streets of Sweden, going door to door as a teenage evangelist. What I learned there was resilience, persistence, and self-belief. No matter how often I got turned away, no matter how badly I crashed and burned, I always found the strength to keep going on to the next house and keep pitching. Since leaving the religion, that mindset has stayed with me, and it’s been a core element in the way I approach business. Deal with rejection, no matter how brutal I was…
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