START BEFORE YOU'RE READY
What "Ready" Really Looks Like
Most people spend their whole lives getting ready to live.
You can't learn to swim without getting in the water. Sounds obvious, right? But look around - everyone's doing the opposite.
They buy swimming books. Watch YouTube videos about proper technique. Study water physics. Buy expensive goggles and swimsuits. Find the "perfect" pool. Maybe even hire a coach to teach them theory.
But they never actually get wet.
Years pass. They know everything about swimming. They can explain every stroke, every breathing technique. They understand how water works. They look like swimmers with all their gear.
Put them in water? They sink like rocks.
This is exactly what happens with starting a business, learning a skill, or changing your life. People confuse preparing with doing. They mistake research for results.
What "Ready" Really Looks Like:
Academic Ready:
Perfect business plan
Market research
Financial projections
Actual Ready:
Willing to fail
Learn
Iterate
The Learning Process - What Actually Helps:
Of course, you may need a swimming teacher, watch videos about tactics, and train out of water. In business life, you may have mentors, coaches, advisors, read books, watch videos, and attend events.
But "ready" does not mean these are linear, step-by-step guides to start.
The real process: You will start, make experiments, test, fail, iterate, and learn - while teachers, mentors, and resources help you improve what you're already doing, not prepare you to maybe start someday.
Most people chase academic readiness. They want perfect conditions, complete knowledge, guaranteed success. But that's not how life works.
The truth is simple: you learn by doing, not by getting ready to do.
Swimming teaches you to swim. Starting a business teaches you business. Having conversations teaches you to communicate.
All the preparation in the world won't make you ready. It just makes you a really well-prepared person who still can't actually do the thing.
Stop getting ready.
Start doing.
The water will teach you to swim faster than any book ever could.