735 Stop Overthinking and Start Doing with Gunnar Lovelace
b"DON'T LET PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF GOOD.\\nWe can talk ourselves out of almost anything.\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m not good enough.\\u201d\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m not ready.\\u201d\\n\\u201cI don\\u2019t have all the skills.\\u201d\\nBut what if you just took the plunge? What if you risked things not being \\u201cperfect\\u201d and put yourself out there?\\nYou might fail, but you\\u2019ll learn a lot more than if you had never shown your project to the world.\\nIt\\u2019s like I always say- the biggest risk takers are the most interesting.\\nFor this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with the entrepreneur Gunnar Lovelace who is passionate about telling people that it\\u2019s ok to make mistakes.\\nGrowing up poor with a single mom left Gunnar with a burning desire to create wealth to do good. As a result, he is a five-time serial entrepreneur focused on social impact at scale (people, planet + profit). Gunnar is the founder and CSO of Thrive Market, which offers organic groceries online at wholesale prices nationally. It has raised $200 million and grown to seven million users and 700 employees in three years.\\nGunnar shares that part of the reason he is so successful is that he didn\\u2019t know everything when he started. He says that you need to get in the driver\\u2019s seat instead of overthinking.\\nLearn how to battle your perfectionism and dive into your dreams in Episode 735.\\nIn This Episode You Will Learn:\\nWhat Gunnar tells his entrepreneurial friends (1:30)\\nWhy it\\u2019s important to make mistakes (2:00)\\nHow to use fear as a teacher (3:00)\\nWhy you need real market feedback (4:00)"