Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship pdfdrive com

You don’t have any money.
You don’t have the right skills.
You are too old.
You are too young.
You live in the wrong neighborhood.
You are too ugly.
You have a family to support.
You don’t have the right degree.
You don’t know the right people.
You know it’s too hard.
You know your job keeps you too busy.
Excuse 93, 94, 95…
In other instances, cerebral dogma honors our self-immolated sacred cows—
short, succinct statements regarded as solid obstructions when they’re anything

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but. Things like:
Oh, I hate living in Chicago, but we can’t move—my family is here.
We go on vacation every year—finances can’t stop our family tradition.
The best jobs are in Silicon Valley—good tech jobs don’t exist elsewhere.
And because your sacred cows are regarded as fact, you’re excused from the
dinner table. Inaction, mediocrity, failure—there’s a good reason for all of it!
Legs? Hell no, my ankles are shot!
Like a crutch, cerebral dogma props up your ego and your biases:
righteousness, antithetical apathy, change adversity, and the rest. Like a little
devil perched on your shoulder, your narrative dogma advocates for the status
quo. Until we start surveilling our thoughts, our brain risks remaining feral and
unfit to command the troops.
BULLSHIT 2.0—SCRIPTSPEAK AND FRANKENPHRASES
Beware of juicy mantras and clever platitudes shoring up mediocrity. Bullshit
2.0 is the syrupy 
SCRIPT
Speak everyone loves to repeat but no one interrogates.
And NO to critique means YES to bullshit. Many of these dictums shine your
glass house while seeding its lawn with do-nothingness. Yes, more change
adversity and antithetical apathy. Anytime you accept 
SCRIPT
Speak as an
incontrovertible statement, you risk allowing that cliché to distort the process-
principle, hence distorting results. Here are some popular ones not limited to
business: