Bill Gates Mindset
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The Mindset of Bill Gates
When you hear the name Bill Gates, which words immediately comes to mind? For me, it’s Microsoft, billionaire, innovative, influential, just to name a few. Not a bad way to be remembered right?
Bill Gates had a vision that would completely revolutionize the computer industry and have a profound effect on the world. Millions of people have had dreams of doing great things in life, but unlike Bill, their dreams just remained dreams.
What makes Bill Gates different from the rest of us? It’s simple. His mindset.
Competitiveness
From an early age, Bill already had a competitive mindset that would guarantee success in whatever path he took in life. For one, he was ultra competitive even as a
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However, when obsession is used as a positive energy, great success can be achieved. In Bill’s case, his obsession with computers helped fuel his drive. All throughout high school, college, and even as founder of Microsoft, he was preoccupied with improving software development for both personal computing and business operations. Think about what it would feel like from a mental standpoint, to be constantly preoccupied 24/7 with the same thing. That was Bill Gates all day and every day.
Desire
The last and most important aspect of his mindset was his desire. Bill’s burning desire was to reinvent the wheel in personal computing and business operations. Some of you may be old enough to remember the way computers used to look like back in the day. Computers used to be big clunky machines, that only a select few knew how to operate. Bill’s vision was to develop software which would allow the average Joe to fully understand and use.
Human desire is described as the fundamental motivation behind all human action and nobody tapped into their desire and got the most out of this better than Bill