The Apollo space program suffered its worst tragedy before it ever left the ground. On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee climbed inside their Apollo 1 spacecraft for a routine prelaunch test. As they sat on the launch pad, a spark from some faulty wiring triggered a massive fire that tore through the cabin’s pure oxygen atmosphere. A complicated latch system on the hatch made it all but impossible for the astronauts to escape, and by the time ground crews finally opened it several minutes later, all three men had died from asphyxiation.
JFK famously said, "we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” The loss of life and setback from Apollo 1 could have ended the program then. It didn’t. Along with the now famous Apollo 13 mission, NASA completed a total of 17 missions in the Apollo program. Learning new skills is not easy in the best of times. Who would start a business now, as we face an unprecedented global pandemic? Leaders throughout history, like JFK, set big goals and achieve them by breaking success down into a series of solvable problems. If you want to be an entrepreneur, start by learning about what an entrepreneur is and isn’t. "In about six to 12 months, there will not have been a better time to start a small business in the last 10 or 12 years, because starting a business in the depths of a recession is a great time to start a business. Good people are less expensive. Real estate is less expensive. Your resources, your raw materials, all the things you need to do to build a new business are a lot less expensive. And in addition, when you come out of a recession, companies are much more willing to try new things. You have the wind at your back." https://www.businessinsider.com.au/scott-galloway-on-healthcare-education-retail-media-entrepreneurship-2020-5?r=US&IR=T We are here to help you start your journey.
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