Paolo Coelho: The Alchemist (1993) 📙

Meine Notizen

Vier Hindernisse für Gründer und Lifestyle Entrepreneure (Mindset): Warum die meisten ihren Träumen nie folgen:

1. „We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible.“ Deswegen versuchen wir es irgendwann gar nicht mehr.
2. „Love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dreams.“
3. „Fear of the defeats we meet on the path.“
   • „We warriors of the light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.“
   • „The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.“
4. „The fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives.“
   • vgl. Selbstsabotage, vgl. Upper Limit Challenges (Gay Hendricks)
   • Oscar Wilde: Each man kills the thing he loves.
   • „The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt.“
   • „But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God.“

Introduction, S. viii ff

Wer kein Problem hat, dem kann man nicht helfen

• “I can’t help you if you feel you’ve got enough sheep.” (S. 20)

Wertvolle Beratung muss immer bezahlt sein

• “If you want to learn about your own treasure, you will have to give me one tenth of your flock.” – “What about one tenth of my treasure?” – The old man looked disappointed. “If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.” (S. 24f)
• Vgl. kein Consulting gegen eine mögliche Gewinnbeteiligung, sondern nur gegen cash. Das ist verbindlich!

Opportunitätskosten

• “[…] everything in life has its price. This is what the Warriors of the Light try to teach.” (S. 25)
• Wir alle zahlen ständig einen Preis!

Unglück gehört zum Leben

• “Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might have died if we had come upon a snake. But that’s the way life is with sheep and with shepherds.” (S. 52)
• Unglück gehört dazu. Für jeden.

Den ideal passenden Tag gibt es eh nie

• “If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other.”

How to predict the future

• „How do I guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. The secret is here in the present.“ (S. 103)
• vgl. Theory U : Leading from the future as it emerges

Courage

• „Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.“ (S. 111)

Meine Rolle als Gründungsberater

• „So you are going to instruct me?“ „No. You already know all you need to know. I am only going to point you in the direction of your treasure.“ (S. 115)

The art of business

• “Santiago learned many lessons on everything from the art of business to the art of patience.”
• Ja, Business ist eine Kunst. Ein gelungenes Lifestyle Business ist ein Kunstwerk.
• Und: The art of business is the art of patience! vgl. The Long Game

„The extraordinary occurs in the lives of ordinary people.“ (Aus dem Interview mit Paolo Coelho im Anhang, S. 194)

• EPU verändern die Welt genauso wie Elon Musk.
• Jedes Core Project ist für sich wunderschön. In jedem Core Project steckt das ganze Universum.