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Who do you think of when you think of a resourceful person? Is it a rich person who has everything they need? Or is it a person who can always get what they need, because they have the smarts and the drive to to so?

Labor, land, capital, and entrepreneurship are all listed in my economics textbook as the fundamental scarce resources. While it is true then that wealth — land and capital — are known as scarce resources, we can be certain that the most truly resourceful person is the hard-working one with entrepreneurial skills. If you can do business things; put together a better website, impress people with the value of your products, or engineer new products from scratch, you are resourceful. If you can’t, well, you may have resources but you aren’t exactly resourceful.

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There are several advantages to being, well, imperfect. It’s quite a powerful thing really, and it’s the only way to get things done. Here’s are some of some of it’s innumerable advantages.

  1. Everybody’s doing it. You can’t find anyone these days who’s not being un-perfect. So by not being perfect you are participating in a vast community of at least 6 billion people.

  2. It gets results. You can make lots of money while not being perfect. I don’t know of anyone who made a fortune who wasn’t doing it at the time. Oddly enough, that’s how fortunes are made

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