‘The Shawshank Redemption’: A Simple But Powerful Message
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‘The Shawshank Redemption’: A Simple But Powerful Message
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#2Thank you. I have struggled for years to explain what is so magical about building anything creative. Most people cannot understand. But, your connection to the movie Shawshank is brilliant. This is a movie people get so well. I will probably use this metaphor for years. Thank you!
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#3> You can fail at any point in time – in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end – literally on any given day until you are done – and if you fail, all your efforts up to that point add up to nothing
Not necessarily true, we all learn from our mistakes and get experience as we do stuff. But I agree with the spirit of this post.
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#4Thank you. I have struggled for years to explain what is so magical about building anything creative. Most people cannot understand. But, your connection to the movie Shawshank is brilliant. This is a movie people get so well. I will probably use this metaphor for years. Thank you!
I am glad you liked the post, and the connection to the movie !
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#5this only makes sense if you're an alien abducted by humans unfairly and now in captive on this crappy earth. And you are devising a scheme to escape from this jail planet by working on your startup.
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#6Good points, but I really don't agree with the analogy of Andy's predicament and a startup...
You have no idea how deep the wall is.
Then find out. Google "lean startup", "Eric Ries", "Steve Blank", or "Rob Walling". There is a strong active movement for avoiding exactly this problem. Anyone starting a business should embrace it.
You have nothing but a rock hammer.
Then get more tools. This includes technology, methodology, money, and, of course, people. "Lack of resources" is no longer an acceptable excuse for failing.
You have no idea when you will be caught.
Then find out. Talk to people. Embrace the lean startup approach mentioned above.
But what you do have, is the journey. Enjoy the journey.
Ahh, yes. agreed! You nailed that one.
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#7I'd agree, apart from that the "end result is binary".
When you aim to do something big, it's very hard to fail completely.
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#8Good points, but I really don't agree with the analogy of Andy's predicament and a startup... You have no idea how deep the wall is. Then find out. Google "lean startup", "Eric Ries", "Steve Blank", or "Rob Walling". There is a strong active movement for avoiding exactly this problem. Anyone starting a business should embrace it. You have nothing but a rock hammer. Then get more tools. This includes technology, metho…
You got some solid points there, particularly the tools. If there is one place where the analogy fails, it would be the tools part.
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#9This really seems like reaching.
Or maybe it seems so universally true of protagonists in pretty much any story that it's basically meaningless.
"Startups are hard. They are filled with uncertainty. Just like when Nemo gets lost in the ocean and his father searches far and wide, not knowing if he'll ever see his son again."
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#10I'd agree, apart from that the "end result is binary". When you aim to do something big, it's very hard to fail completely.
There's also some danger of being stuck in a state of mediocrity.