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185: The Monkey and the Pedestal

The Bootstrapped Founder

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The Importance of Prioritizing Your Founder

Pedestals are easy to build, but training the monkey? Not so much. Just because you might run into a wall with your most challenging problem, that doesn't mean you should pick a low hanging fruit instead from your pedestal selection. It costs a lot of discipline to stick with the monkey when it's unwilling to be trained. But it's worth it. The capacity to keep training the monkey when pedestals are an option all over the place is one of the most defining features of successful entrepreneurs.

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