Do you ever find yourself skipping a rock down the block, just walking down the street
and you find a rock and you just start kicking it?
Well, I do that all the time and I know that a lot of you guys do it too.
And I was doing it the other day at the park and I was like, I just read a book called
Observation, Every Man, His University.
And it's an older book and it's a really quick read.
It took me two hours to read it.
But basically the main point that I got from it was to start observing.
Just start looking at things and observing nature, being more observant.
So I was like, okay, I just went on with my day and I was like, and I was thinking to
myself, when I go on my walk, I'm going to be more observant.
I'm going to start looking at the trees more so than I normally do.
I'm going to look at the ducks at the park and I'm going to do all these things.
And I forget a little bit to do it and I'm not observant the whole time, but I start
kicking this rock.
You know how when you start doing something and it's just kind of automatic, kind of habitual?
Well, that was that instance.
I was not really consciously aware of what I was doing.
But I just kept kicking the rock and then I lost it.
And what do you do when you lose the rock?
You keep walking, right?
That's the cardinal rule.
You keep walking.
So I kept walking and then I found another rock.
Started kicking it again.
And then eventually I lost it.
And then the psychorapyta I kept on finding more and more rocks and I kept kicking them
until eventually I kicked one all the way home.
Now why do I tell you this?
Well as you might guess from the title of this video, rock dribbling is entrepreneurship.
I started doing entrepreneurship in maybe middle school, elementary school, I don't know.
I would start in middle school, I would trade chips and I would sell them or I would trade
them for hot lunch and then eventually that wasn't going anywhere so I switched to a different
thing and I started thinking bigger, started actually thinking about business and I started
to learn how to code websites.
And then eventually I realized that there's actual website builders out there that can
do it way better than I can for fairly cheap.
So I just stopped doing that.
And I moved on.
The original rock that I was dribbling was trading chips and then I lost it but I kept
moving forward.
I didn't get so angry or sad or I didn't just get stuck trying to bring the rock back because
once it's gone it's gone.
You gotta move on.
And then when I started to realize that the website programming is actually not that good,
that's kind of like I realized that the rock is not that fun to kick.
It's not like the solid nice rock that's easy or not necessarily easy but is just not enjoyable
or it's not long term.
Kind of like during the winter time when you kick an ice, like a piece of ice or a snowball
down and it's a weak snowball so it like breaks apart so it's not going to last a long time.
That was the instance of the website builder.
And then I just kept trying different things until eventually I discovered YouTube.
And that's the end of the story because that's where I'm at right now but you dribble the
rock until you either lose it or you make it home.
And so the rock that you get home with is the one that actually changes your life.
So I haven't arrived, I haven't made it home yet but I'm still dribbling the rock.
It's been eight months.
This is the longest I've ever lasted doing one venture.
Trading chips in middle school lasted like two years or three years but that doesn't
really matter because it was just like a little thing.
But this is the most time that I've ever invested into anything.
So I don't know.
What are your rocks that you've dribbled in the past?
What are the rocks that you left behind because you realized that they were bad?
Think about that because it's actually really important.
I thought that I was not really productive or I basically thought that I was wasting
my life before high school or even during high school until I started lifting weights
or actually reading books.
But I realized that I was actually learning a lot of lessons.
I just had to have the hindsight to realize.
There was a speech that Steve Jobs gave to a commencement.
It was basically where he talked about how all of the dots are happening in your life.
You can't see how they connect until you have hindsight, until you look behind and you actually
look back into your past and see, oh, that connected.
Like, oh, that was actually helping me towards my goal.
He said that you just got to trust and have faith that all of the dots will connect eventually.
So that's kind of like rock dribbling.