Disruptors The Hidden Benefits of Being a Beginner [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]
Welcome to another episode of The Disruptors Podcast! Today, Rob talks about Imposter Syndrome, and how trying out a new business venture where you don’t have as much experience can make you feel like you have no idea what you’re doing. However, there are quite a few advantages to being a beginner: it keeps you humble and open-minded, and the “newness” of it all gives you a level of passion and enthusiasm that many people with more experience have lost. Just remember to live in the moment and understand that you’ve got to start somewhere.
Key Takeaways:
- Entering into a business venture where you are new and don’t have as much experience as other people can feel overwhelming and stressful. You can feel like you’re an imposter and you don’t know what you’re doing and are going to mess it up.
- While you are technically not experienced in this field, most of these feelings are just built on personal emotions and fear rather than the actual odds of you messing something up.
- However, that “beginner’s fear” can serve a purpose. It keeps you humble and that helps you learn more things faster because there isn’t any “Oh, I already know this,” ego getting in the way of you absorbing information.
- Beginners also have excitement, passion, and an almost innocent naivete that motivates them, as opposed to someone who has been in the same industry for decades and is worn down, demotivated, and probably doesn’t even want to be doing this anymore.
- Beginners are often going to be more creative, more open-minded, and more likely to ask for advice and ready to learn more than experienced people because they have to make up for the lack of experience. They are also not yet set in their ways.
- It can be difficult to be present in the moment when you’re a beginner. You look at someone with experience and want the success that they have, and you can get wrapped up living in the future and re-setting the bar every time you achieve something.
- So take time to acknowledge how far you’ve actually come and also recognize the advantages to being a beginner while you still are one rather than looking back later.
- Everyone has something that they are very good at that they had to start out being really inexperienced and bad at. Don’t let failures make you think you’re a failure, instead learn from them and grow and do better.
Best Moments:
“A lot of people don’t realize that the fears that they have serve a purpose.”
“From a practical point of view, being a humble student when you’re learning something new is smart because you’ll learn the quickest, there’ll be no ego in the way.”
“You should be more open-minded, you should have a lateral thought process, you should be more creative. You have to be because you can’t rely on experience and knowledge.”
“We could always be living in the future and not enjoying the present.”
“Go get ‘em, my friends. You’ve got this, I believe in you!”
[Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]
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ABOUT THE HOST
Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors”
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