{"id":823,"date":"2009-07-16T21:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2009-07-16T21:38:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:08:36","slug":"flaw-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/07\/flaw-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaw Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant post from the Personal MBA points us towards the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/personalmba.com\/dangers-of-mystique\/\" target=\"_blank\">dangers of mystique<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a big difference between liking the idea of being\/doing something and liking the actual being\/doing.<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s easy to like the idea of being a manager.<\/span> It\u2019s harder to like the demands from C-level execs, surprises from your direct reports, and the necessity of defending your turf in a political environment.<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s easy to like the idea of getting an Ivy-League MBA or law degree.<\/span> It\u2019s harder to like the six-figure debt and the corresponding necessity of getting a 120-hour-a-week job to make the investment \u201cworth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s easy to like the idea of being self-employed.<\/span> It\u2019s harder to like the fact that 100% of your income comes from your own effort, and if you screw up, you\u2019re the one that will face the consequences.<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s easy to like the idea of being an author or professional blogger.<\/span> It\u2019s harder to like the solitude, uncertainty, and the long hours of \u201cbutt in chair, hands on keyboard\u201d that consistent writing requires.<\/p>\n<p><span>(The Bottomline?)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No job, project, or position is flawless<\/span> \u2013 every course of action has benefits and drawbacks. Learning what they are in advance gives you a major advantage: it allows you to examine an option without idealizing it, then choose if it\u2019s really what you want to do with your time <em>before<\/em> you start. That kind of knowledge is priceless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, &#8220;look before you leap&#8221;.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/personalmba.com\/dangers-of-mystique\/\" target=\"_blank\">Truer words<\/a>\u00a0were never spoken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant post from the Personal MBA points us towards the &#8220;dangers of mystique&#8220;.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt: There\u2019s a big difference between liking the idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,14],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}