The Disruptive Entrepreneur

Discover today the 'common advice' that is (usually) bad. Join Rob as he goes through thirty of the most frequent pieces of advice that you should not take. Rob discusses why it is not possible to eliminate your fears, why you should always have a plan B and why ‘going with your gut’ can mislead you into filtering out important information.   KEY TAKEAWAYS A common piece of bad advice is that you can ‘eliminate’ fear. It is not possible to have no fear, fear is a necessary emotion for survival and if you did not have it you would be dead. Stop being delusional about thinking you can eliminate fear and contextualise it instead. Feel the fear and do it anyway.   Another piece of bad advice that is common is people telling you not to have a plan B. If you didn’t have a plan B this year for your business, then you were most likely in danger. Whilst you should not spend all your time planning for the worst, it is smart to have a plan B, C, D etc. Whilst it is important to not lose focus on your plan A, you sho