I got a mail early morning from a friend of mine. He shared a link of a company that is solving the same problem as we are trying to solve, but in a different manner. I jumped right into it and was stunned to see their progress. I can tell you it's not a great way to start your day. It's actually exactly opposite, you're demotivated and you start doubting yourself.
I kept thinking about it and concluded that it's a complete waste of time to even spend a minute more pondering upon this. You probably can't control them, but you certainly can control your actions. Then this tweet came to my mind:
I kept thinking about it and concluded that it's a complete waste of time to even spend a minute more pondering upon this. You probably can't control them, but you certainly can control your actions. Then this tweet came to my mind:
Please do tell me more about how ___ "already exists." And how great MP3 players were prior to iPod, and electric cars before Tesla.
— Bored Elon Musk (@BoredElonMusk) February 5, 2014
How amazingly true is this. Take a moment to think about it. iPod was not the first MP3 player, Tesla was not the first electric car, Dropbox was not the first cloud storage platform, Facebook was not the first social network and on and on. The list is endless. You've to solve a pain point and do it better than anybody else in the world. Period.