A better metaphor: Farming.

There's a better metaphor than hunting. It's farming. Farming staking out the ground you will farm, it's deciding what to plant, it's preparing the soil, it's sowing the seeds, irrigating, nurturing, fertilizing, shaping, thinning, replanting if necessary, and finally reaping.

When you've done it well and worked hard, oh what delicious stuff you have reaped. You might even get some volunteers in there, plants that got dropped by a bird or seeds that came in with the wind and took root in the fertile soil you provided them, that you didn't expect but taste wonderful.

When you hunt, you manipulate and exploit. You take what nature has worked hard and you grab it and take it away. You don't give back. You don't improve the environment in which your enterprise lives.

When you farm you don't get food right away. You build a world in which your crops can flower and prosper, and you along with it. When you farm you realize the connections to the world around you and the connections between the elements of that world. When you connect, you build an enterprise. You develop people around you. You making them better.

Sure, if Peter finds a customer at his networking event, great. But if he doesn't no big deal. I wasn't the expectation anyway.

More about this next time.

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