And I had this epiphany on the spot, and I'd never said this before. I said,

weaknesses are fine. We all have strengths and weaknesses. You don't want blind spots. A blind

spot is a weakness that you're not aware of. When you have a weakness and you know about it,

you can work around it. If you're the founder who bounces from one thing to the next to the

next, who follows each distraction,

and you realize, you know what,

I'm never going to focus on anything long enough

to build something great,

then you can acknowledge that weakness

and stick with things longer than you think you should.

But if you're not aware of it,

how can you work around it?

No, if you're not aware of it, how can you work around it? It's another episode of Startup for the Rest of Us. As always, I'm your host, Rob Walling. This week, I'm flying solo. As I talked through a few topics, I've been mulling over these past few weeks and months. The first one is going to be about distractions, good distractions, bad distractions, micro macro, and talking about how to avoid the ones that

will derail your plans. I also want to talk about weaknesses versus blind spots. I want to look at

how everyone, even the successful founders around you, struggle. And then if we have time,

I'm going to cover a topic about how you don't have to be right all the time.

In fact, you don't even need to be right the vast majority of the time to be successful.

Before I dive into the topics, if you haven't picked up a copy of the SaaS Playbook,

it has sold just about 30,000 copies.

I actually haven't run the numbers in about a month.

And last I checked, it was at about 29,000. The book is selling really well. And the reviews and ratings and comments, both on

ex-Twitter, Amazon and other places are really encouraging. And it seems the book is resonating

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