Richie has been featured in Forbes, Businessweek, Young Entrepreneur, Huffington Post and other national publications both in print and online. The 2013 San Francisco Book Festival named The Power of Starting Something Stupid the winner of the business category and the grand prize winner of all book categories in its annual competition. In 2010, Pacific Business News recognized Richie as one of the Top Forty Under 40 “best and brightest young businessmen” in Hawaii.
Richie has shared the stage with bestselling authors such as Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen M.R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust and Kevin Rollins, former CEO of Dell Computers.
Richie received his MBA from the world’s #1 ranked international business school, Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Here are some of the major takeaways from our discussion:
- The 3 “T’s” of Stupidity.
- Model T
- Telephone
- All of these were once considered as a stupid idea, but overtime became amazing successes. If the inventors of these mentioned inventions did not pursue their dreams because they were stupid ideas, think of where the world would be now. Especially many great inventions which were once considered as only stupid ideas and look how much advancement we have made as mankind.
- Gavin’s Law: Live to start, start to live. Life is short and none of us will know when it will be our time to go. Therefore it becomes requisite for us to take advantage of opportunities that are here for us. We must learn to take action, especially when we think that it’s “only a stupid idea”.
- As a seller, you must truly believe in what you are selling and that it will bring value to your prospects. It must become your moral obligation to educate and let them know what you have to offer as a seller.
- Strive not to let pride hold you back from going forth and taking action of your “stupid ideas”.
- Whenever you are faced with the dilemma of starting a “stupid ideas”, ask yourself, will I regret this when I am 80?
- Lean into stupid, don’t run from it.
- You have to start to START, which stands for “Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive and Trust”
- Service: Truly serve others and give service genuinely.
- Thank: Be full of gratitude.
- Ask: Ask for things that are “Mission Matching”. Offering them something that other’s needs.
- Receive: Be willing to receive things from others, not just giving to others.
- Trust: Trust the process.
- Procrastinators are addicted immediacy and getting instance gratification
- To overcome your procrastinating tendencies, each night take a 3X5 card and write down the five most important things you have to accomplish the next day. Work your way down the list and take it one task at a time.
- Don’t take yourself too seriously that you don’t do anything. You have to take action.
- However, do take your “ideas” seriously and don’t discount yourself. Know that you are unique and recognize that you have something to offer others with your unique personality.
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