This is a great question, asked and answered, sometimes insightfully, more often not, thousands of times. One problem I have seen with the answers to this question that tend to be less than insightful is that they are offered by people who have never been entrepreneurs, and so the answers can be overly academic, pedantic, or abstract in nature. I have had many folks ask me (or simply opine unsolicited) whether my success as an entrepreneur was due to my success in becoming a Navy SEAL officer. In short, the answer is no. I know several former SEALs who have become successful entrepreneurs to varying degrees (Mark Divine, Mike Johnson, Alden Mills
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