Time = Wealth

If we believe the concept that time equals wealth then we must take a step back because it means five life altering things -

1. Each morning we all have the same amount of wealth
2. At any given moment we all have the same chance of losing all of our wealth forever
3. It is a type of wealth that can only be utilized when spent, today's wealth will mold the moment you go to bed tonight
4. We consider wealth to be security, so how do we handle the notion that we have wealth (yay your alive) with the fact that there is zero security (lookout for that truck).
   
5. Lastly a question: Does the act of hurrying, multitasking, utilizing, going as fast as possible actually decrease the value of any given moments in a day?
   

The village idiot

There used to be a village idiot, somebody who did not fit in, which is mostly because everyone else fit in. The shoemaker fit in because when he was ten he started working for the old shoemaker and learned how to not be an idiot. The school teacher fit in because she went to school and then left for more school and then brought that school back.

Then along came entrepreneurship, this hard to spell endeavor, that said that you can succeed with an idea and passion. And oh by the way, it helps if you don't fit in, it helps to stand out and be a purple cow and a lone wolf and a leader (but early on nobody will follow you because you're a trail blazer). The problem is that now you're the idiot.

I became the idiot because I started a small business without the realization of a couple things, here are just five, out of order and importance:

1. It takes decades to start a cool business and decades past that to mature a cool business.
2. You don't get rich just because you start a business.
3. You have to do things you don't like and that make you uncomfortable.
4. I really do not have very much knowledge/intelligence/insight/etc.
5. Ideas do not win, implementation wins.

But do you know the real reason I became the idiot, because the people who are not the idiot are filling a role that already exists and doing it well. Furthermore, the idiot tends to think that everybody else is an idiot (or sheep, or sheeple, or cog, or drone). But those cogs, those drones, took years (remember the shoemaker starting at 10) to get good at becoming normal, how much harder (and more difficult) is it going to be to create a movement and lead that movement.

The world is moving so fast now that we forget how long it takes to become something, except the village idiot, with the right moves you can become that overnight.

Failure spiral

A documentary on the south pole, shot by renowned film maker Werner Herzog, follows a group of people taking the mandatory upon arrival survival course. They do a drill called bucket head, where they place (you guessed it) buckets on their head to simulate a white-out snow storm that kills your eyesight completely and muffles your hearing. They then have to leave the building to go find somebody lost a hundred feet away. As they leave the building, guide rope in hand to help them find their way back, they yell out numbers - "One out the door", "Two out the door" etc.

They start out well but then begin a circle back on themselves and get tangled in the rope. The instructor turns to the camera, as we watch in the background a bunch of bucket heads bumping into each other, and says "This is really important, we want to see if they will realized their mistake and return to the building to formulate a new plan or if this will turn into a failure spiral where one mistake leads to another mistake which leads to another and never ends".

1) I've been in a failure spiral for a couple years now, it's interesting when your in it because you spend so much time trying to figure out your next move when your really need to go back to the building. What gets really wild is that each decision you make seemingly makes it so much harder to make the decision to go back, we're this far now why restart?
2) I don't know how they picked guy #1 but he acted like guy number one, leading by pulling on the rope and yelling, and guy number three acted like guy number three, following, bucket on head, collecting a paycheck (only kidding all you paycheck junkies). The moment you are lost you have to realize that guy #1 (also known as Ben in many examples) got you here and all power is shifted to the last person in line, the one holding the rope that leads directly back to the building.
3) Realizing that there is a bucket on your head is paramount, the same rules don't apply as in regular life. Sometimes you have to restart, sometimes you have to slow down, sometimes the person at either end of the rope has to take control.