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How to shift from an employee to an entrepreneur mindset

2026-10-19 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:35 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Answering questions · tags: His own products discussed

Asked how to shift from an employee to an entrepreneur mindset, Ali says the structure of a job disappears when you start a business, so the shift is about being comfortable with uncertainty; his one tip is to lower the certainty you need and act at 30% certainty.

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00:00:00 — Shifting from the employee mindset to the entrepreneur mindset

  • ★ Ali describes his Lifestyle Business Academy as an online business school that helps people build a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business, and says its students often start out with the employee mindset. — 00:00:00 · Lifestyle Business Academy, lifestyle business
  • ★★ When you start a business, Ali says, the employee's clear job description, onboarding and accountable manager setting goals and giving feedback all go completely out of the window. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Becoming an entrepreneur, Ali says, means being okay with the uncertainty of captaining your own ship without knowing how to sail or which direction you are going; much of it is being comfortable with uncertainty. — 00:00:29

  • ★★★ Ali's one tip for shifting to an entrepreneur mindset: lower the amount of certainty you need to act; if you are 30% certain, just go for it. — 00:00:58

    “If you're 30% certain, just go for it.”

  • ★★ Ali says a good student who was only 30% certain of passing an exam would be dumb to take it, but an entrepreneur needs to be okay with acting with 30% certainty. — 00:00:58

  • ★★ In Ali's programmes, the students who best make the shift from employee to entrepreneur mindset just do stuff, acting with 20% or 30% certainty, while those who flounder overthink and need 80% or 90% certainty before they take action. — 00:00:58 · Lifestyle Business Academy

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