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To be successful as an one person online business maker you need loads of self motivation & some self control over procrastination.

If you're spending alot of time on your own, managing & building up your start up without alot of actual human engagement you need strong will power...& good ambient music on in the background ;-]



I had to look up what ambient music was and I found out that listening to it agitates and annoys me beyond belief. So that is rather a big assumption about music taste you have there.


I found I needed music to keep me motivated, and after trying out Rock/Metal (my normally preferred genre), I cycled through baroque and classical, and eventually ended up settling on Trance/EDM. It ended up just being all about the BPM matching my typing speed (about 124bpm).


I procrastinate like nobody's business and I still run my own SaaS business just fine. Just gotta ride those "productivity waves." ;)


These kind of comments are very interesting, and I bump into them now and then when I express aspirations to do something.

On the other hand driven people comment the same way on people "just" taking a job working 9 to 5 and appreciating being able to not work hard (well, procrastinate, not motivating one-self, etc.).

I guess this is an area where empathy is really hard.




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