I Think Over Analyzing Might Be The Death Of Success

Growing up, I always prided myself in my smarts. I thought I was smarter then my peers as a child. I thought one of my best attributes was my problem solving and ability to work hard on assignments.

I was right in some cases but years later, I realize just how naive this viewpoint is. 

You see, when we decide to pursue a new hobby or skill or way to make money, you either go in two directions:

• Let me learn this "thing" before I pursue it
• Let me just begin and try it

My issue and where I used up years of my life was I romanticized the first bullet. Even now, I find myself thinking and wondering over trying out whatever I'm thinking about. 

I've made at least two TikToks on this and how it seems like the "dumber" people are the most successful financially. 

I think it's because they cut down that time between thinking of something and actually going out and doing it.

For example, let's say there's two people from the same city, same level of schooling, around the same salary and both people ask themselves;:

"How can I open a restaurant?"

Let's imagine each person asked themselves this question at the same exact time. I think it'll go something like this:

• Person 1: Okay, I'm going to go to my favorites restaurants in the city and speak with each of there managers for at least 5 minutes each to see what advice they might be able to give me so that I can go in the right direction. If some don't have the time to speak with me, I'll just continue walking until I find other restaurants I could walk into and maybe extract some valuable info from as I speak those in higher positions.
• Person 2: Okay, I could try this but it may be a bad idea. My friends might see me and laugh at me! All my family will look at me crazy. I don't know the first thing behind owning a restaurant! This would be way out of my budget. I doubt anyone would want to invest in this idea. How do I even find investors...

Now imagine this. This scenario happens every minute of our lives to millions of different strangers out there.

It's like a mix of lower beliefs, analysis paralysis once the second individual starts studying(if they ever begin), contemplating if they should begin or not, fear of being perceived by others. 

Then, they have to spend hours-days going back and fourth with their selves trying to convince or talk themselves out of this idea.

Meanwhile, person 1 has been speaking to owners for the last three weeks and due to their diligence, they found two strategies to reach out to potential investors. Now a year later, they've built a small community online by documenting their journey of finding investors, strategizing what type of food to make, giving tips to others on how to start a restaurant and plenty more beneficial value propositions.

The punchline is...although this person is about to launch in a few months, that doesn't necessarily guarantee their success. All this guarantees is their experience actually growing so even if they lose money, they now gained those reps to start a similar venture even faster and more efficiently because they know what they could o differently.

Yet, person 2 is still sitting on those amazing idea and somehow convinced themselves that they don't want to do it anymore or that they'll just do it once they feel safe or comfortable going after this goal.

Lately, I think i was a mix of both sides. I do move faster than I was years ago but I still saw myself keeping some creative ideas buried because I knew that when I begun, I wouldn't be that good at it. I also thought about how to approach beginning stuff a lot.

In a way, it's like the ones who think less, attract the most abundance out of life in a way. Funny enough a lot of the kids I went to school with as a child really acted like this. I'm 100% moving like this in real life these days.