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You dream of a way out, of a way to buy your freedom while making enough money to pay for the house, the car, the wife (or the husband, let's not be sexist!)...You know that the only way to do that is to become an entrepreneur, but you resist the idea with all your might.Because it's scary, because it's a leap into the unknown, because you have responsibilities, because you can't afford such a big risk...If you are even remotely familiar with this situation, then I have good news for you: everything you know about entrepreneurship is wrong, and in this article, I will explain everything you need to know to regain control of your life, buy yourself a Porsche and break the insidious chains of "adult life"."Becoming an entrepreneur is difficult, it takes at least 5 years to have a business that runs like a world. "It's risky, four out of five entrepreneurs fail. "It takes money to make money! "You have to work 150 hours a week to be an entrepreneur! »Have you ever heard any of these sentences before? I do. Each of them and several times.These statements are unhealthy and paint a distorted picture of reality. Because of this portrait, people approach entrepreneurship with false expectations, which leads them to make completely stupid decisions.These decisions often put people in a precarious position.They inflate their chest, leave their cubicle and enter the boss' office as if Clint Eastwood were entering a Saloon.Close-up on the gaze... Long pause - "I quit". Music is on board. A ball of hay rolls up behind the scenes.Fastforward 4 months later, the bank account is empty, they had to go back to live with their mother.To keep face, these individuals will hide behind the image of the entrepreneur who, against all expectations, heroically tries to challenge the status quo.These "entrepreneurs" like to perpetuate the myth of martyrdom because it values them and gives them a reason for their suffering.But let me be clear: these people are not heroic entrepreneurs, but rather simple individuals who refuse to accept reality - they have been idiots and have made bad decisions.Of course, not all entrepreneurs are like that. But we don't know them because they use their energies more to work (or tan) than to complain.The worst part of it all is that many of those who are successful unwittingly participate in this narrative and perpetuate the myth of the martyred entrepreneur.I can understand them... The idea of portraying oneself as greater than oneself is attractive. We would like our friends and family to see us as their little Elon Musk: a tank that, alone against the world, works 23 hours a day and overcomes obstacles thanks to its unparalleled determination.Before I explain how to become an entrepreneur, I want to address these myths so that you have a more realistic picture of the situation.Becoming an entrepreneur requires you to learn how to allocate your time better, but it doesn't have to be difficult. Why should a business idea take 5 years to work well? In my opinion, if it takes 5 years, either you're really ugly in marketing, or your idea is really bad!As you will see, if you are not able to generate income from the beginning, it is probably because you should choose another idea.Starting a business always involves a small dose of risk, but what makes an entrepreneur successful is his or her ability to mitigate risk. Drop everything to open a restaurant is a shit idea, especially when you have no experience in catering. On the other hand, buying the franchise of the restaurant for which you have been working as a manager for 10 years, it makes a lot more sense!4 out of 5 companies no longer exist after 5 years. That's true. Many of them are being bought while others have transformed and changed their names following a pivot. You have to take the statistics with a grain of salt.Then there is the famous saying, "It takes money to make money. "This one is partially true. In fact, it takes a solution that meets a need to make money. And this solution often costs money to build. That being said, there is nothing to say that it should be YOUR money. You can sell your product, get a loan, convince investors... It's never money that's the problem, but the ability to sell your vision.And finally, it's just not true to say that you have to work like a fool to be an entrepreneur. You just have to learn to prioritize your time. I work about 35 hours a week like anyone else. The only difference is that I'm not wasting my time with the bullshit trying to take my time hostage.On my working hours, I close Facebook, I don't answer the phone, I don't answer my text messages and, most importantly: I work.In CEGEP, when I had a store on eBay, I was asked several times: "How do you start a business like that? "My answer has always left people hungry. Unfortunately for you, that is also the answer I will give you today."It's easy, just do it! »Anyone can make an eBay account for themselves and anyone can ask their neighbour to sell their old stuff that they no longer use. It's not complicated, it's even stupid because it's so simple. However, we have this preconceived idea that a company must be developed and complex. We think we should write a 60-page business plan and sit for hours with bankers and civil servants - bad party!You can, but it's far from mandatory (or recommended).To start a business, the only thing you need to do is to find and then execute an idea.Some ideas are incredibly stupid (like trying to redo a new Facebook) while others make more sense (applying new technology to an industry, like virtual reality to tourism or graphene to batteries).The problem is not finding ideas, it's having bad ones and ignoring them.To be able to judge the relevance of an idea, you must test your idea directly in the market. You need to approach potential customers and try to sell them the solution before you build it. If you can do that, your idea will work.The mistake is to want to keep everything to yourself and waste a year secretly developing something that no one wants.But I know what you're going to tell me... Before you can execute it, you still have to come up with an idea!Unfortunately, for fear of wasting their time on a bad idea, many waste their time doing nothing until they have the idea of the century. Ironic, I know.Listen to me carefully.You're never going to wake up one morning with the idea of the century if you don't do something. That's not how it works. Real good original ideas come from the intersection of fields of expertise that are not usually crossed.Grand Ormon Street Hospital is a children's hospital that performs open-heart surgery on newborns. Unfortunately for the children, the hospital had a huge problem: during the manoeuvres surrounding the change between the operating room and intensive care, a large number of children died. Here are some advices from Guillaume Rondan on VietnamInsider sharing about how to get started if you are an expat living in Asia.To be able to solve this problem, the hospital asked for doctors and experts, but no one was able to solve the problem. To find the solution, they had to call on, hold on, a Formula 1 team.In an F1 race, when the car gets to the pit, no one has time to get stupid - everyone has to do what they have to do quickly and accurately.It's a bit like in an operating room, except that in the operating room, everyone shouts, "I tied the tube! ", "The stretcher is ready", etc. It's cacophony, everyone does what they "think" they should do and no one supervises anything. At least, that's the way it was in their hospital.The doctors went to Italy to chat with the engineers and came back with the observation that they would have to drastically change their way of doing things.After implementing the principles taught by the F1 team, they dealt with a team of professional choreographers to practice their movements and make better use of the limited space they have.Result? They have reduced the number of deaths by 66%!You may think, "That's all well and good, but what can a hospital teach me about entrepreneurship? »Everything! Think about it. Elon Musk started x.com (PayPal) with the objective of revolutionizing the banking system using the Internet. He had this idea because he had already worked in a bank before making his first web startup. These skills are part of two fields that were not used to cross paths! This expertise allowed him to see the inefficiency of the market and a solution that proved revolutionary.To be able to have good business ideas, you must become multidisciplinary. If you want to do a web business, you will of course have to familiarize yourself. Learn more about Guillaume Rondan on Movetoasia.com sharing his life as an expat and how to be able to stay in south east asia and live there for more than 3 years.