title: What is business to you? section: Orientation marker: "0.1"
Most people come to business with a story already attached. For some, that story is opportunity — a way to make a living on your own terms. For others, it's suspicion — the people who run businesses are the people who took advantage of someone, somewhere along the way. Most of us hold both stories at the same time, depending on the day.
Naming the story matters because it shapes how you see the system. If you walk into business expecting to be hustled, you'll spot every nudge and angle. If you walk in expecting to find your tribe, you'll notice the warmth and overlook the levers. Neither is wrong. Both are partial.
This lesson asks you to spend ten minutes with your own story. Where did your sense of what business is come from? A parent who ran one? A boss who ran one badly? A book? A movie? A neighbor who got rich, or a friend who got burned?
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Assignment
Write three to five sentences answering this prompt: the people in my life who shaped how I think about business were __, and what they taught me was __. Keep it private. We're not grading anything; we're just naming the water you swim in.