You are obscenely more capable and talented than you give yourself credit for.
Society has taught you to doubt yourself and settle for average.
Don’t be. You fucking got this. Even if you fuck it up, you’ll get it on the 2nd-5th time.
Try mother fucker. Try.
• be Konosuke Matsushita
• born into a wealthy Japanese family in 1894
• your father gambles the entire family fortune on the rice market and loses everything when you are 4 years old
• forced to drop out of school at age 9 to sweep floors in a bicycle shop just to survive
• you look around and realize electricity is the future, so you join the Osaka Electric Light Company and quickly become their youngest inspector
• at 22, you invent an improved, highly efficient light socket in your spare time
• you show it to your boss. He tells you it's useless and will never sell.
• most people would accept the rejection and stay at the safe corporate job
• you immediately quit, take your life savings of 100 yen, and start a company in your tiny dirt-floor apartment with your wife and teenage brother-in-law
• you nearly starve. You literally have to pawn your wife’s kimono just to buy food.
• finally, you get a hit with a two-way socket, but you notice a bigger problem: bicycle lamps in 1920s Japan use candles, which constantly blow out in the wind
• you engineer a bullet-shaped, battery-powered bicycle lamp that lasts for 40 hours
• you take it to the massive wholesalers. They laugh at you and refuse to stock it.
• you execute the ultimate asymmetric marketing hack: you completely bypass the gatekeepers
• you take the lamps directly to local bicycle shop owners, leave them in the stores for *free*, and tell them: "Turn it on. If it stays lit, pay me. If it dies, keep it."
• the lamps work perfectly. The public goes crazy. You have successfully hacked the distribution network.
• you formulate the "Water-Tap Philosophy": the stoic belief that an entrepreneur's duty is not just to make money, but to mass-produce goods until they are as cheap and abundant as tap water, eradicating poverty through sheer industrial scale
• WWII happens. The Allies dismantle your massive company and order you to be fired and purged from the industry.
• your own factory workers—who you treated with radical respect instead of viewing them as disposable cogs—literally protest the US military government
• your union petitions General Douglas MacArthur himself, demanding you be reinstated as CEO
• the US military is so confused by a labor union fighting *for* their corporate boss that they actually agree
• you rebuild from the ashes to create **Panasonic**
• live to 94, leaving behind a legacy built on the idea that business is a philosophical pursuit of human betterment
"If you make an honest mistake, I will forgive you. But if you compromise on our core values, I will fire you."
@CacheThatCheque Aren’t they a very obvious play tho? Considering every single aspect in the industry moves through them. Is it too late to get in now tho?