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I was listening to an artist talking about an art gallery she was running, she was a painter and she said, ”I like painting, I don’t want to deal with the business end of things.”
Uh, you’re running a business, you’re going to have to deal with the “business end of things.”
Let’s use a metaphor, let’s pretend your business is a dog. All dogs have two ends. If you own the dog you have to take care of both. You don’t get to choose the head—pat it, throw tennis balls to it, and let it lick you, and ignore the other end. You can’t let it poop wherever it wants and don’t clean up after it. You own the whole dog—sorry, you have to take care of both ends, even the smelly one.
Let’s move our metaphor over to jiu-jitsu. Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the past has chosen to deal with one part of the dog. They’ve chosen the head—the ground—with all it’s beautiful techniques and ignored the ass-end, the take down. I think that’s being changed. We have to think of things as wholes, the entire business, the entire martial art, the entire dog.
You can’t choose parts, you don’t have that luxury—sorry.
