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.