99% Business Majors Won’t Be Able To Start A Business – Here’s Why

The Common Argument: “Focus on Studying, Stop Wasting Time on Business”

If you’ve ever tried starting a business while in university, you’ve probably heard this:
“Stop trying your bullshit business models. You always fail. Focus on studying first.”

Sounds reasonable, right? If you keep failing, why not just focus on school? But here’s the thing—I don’t think that’s the right way to look at it. Trying and failing at different business models actually helps you increase logical thinking, understand what works and what doesn’t, and expose the flaws of the traditional education system.

Most people are too afraid to try, afraid to fail, afraid of judgment. But what would you do if you weren’t afraid? That’s the question I keep asking myself. If I weren’t afraid, I wouldn’t hesitate. I’d go all in. I wouldn’t waste my time following a pre-planned route that guarantees comfort but nothing extraordinary.

The Fantasy of University vs. The Brutal Reality of Life

Let me break it down for you:
In school, we learn how to fight a dragon with the army of four nations and a nuclear bomb. In life, we learn how to fight a bear with a stick.

Still don’t get it?

In university, we’re taught:

• How to invest in real estate before we even have cash reserves or cash flow.
• How to manage a business when we don’t even have the capital to run a basic operation.
• How to maximize our potential through outsourcing when we can’t even afford employees.
• How to work in groups to optimize efficiency, but in real life, when you start a business, you’re usually completely alone—no group projects, no team to help.

Now, let’s look at what happens when you actually start a business:

• No money to invest in real estate, let alone run ads.
• No network to reach out to for guidance.
• No friends who understand business. Everyone’s a nerd focused on academics.
• No one knows how to run ads, edit, film, or market.

So you’re alone. And here’s the hard truth: you have to kill your current self for your new self to have room to grow.

The Reality of Business Models vs. What Uni Teaches You

🔥 Copywriting

• In theory: You learn about marketing and advertising strategies.
• In reality: You have zero brand image, and no one trusts you. Even when you offer free services in exchange for testimonials, people either:
  • A. Don’t care about upgrading their outdated websites.
  • B. Would rather pay a big agency than risk working with a nobody.

🔥 Dropservicing

• In theory: You learn about outsourcing and project management.
• In reality: You hire someone on Fiverr or Upwork, and they might steal your clients the moment they see an opportunity. Talent acquisition is a nightmare.

🔥 Dropshipping

• In theory: You learn about e-commerce and supply chain management.
• In reality: You need money to run ads, spend hours doom-scrolling for winning products, and in Vietnam? COD (Cash on Delivery) and low wages kill dropshipping.

🔥 Content Creation

• In theory: Just post and build an audience.
• In reality: You need to optimize every part of your life.
  • Your training.
  • Your academic results.
  • Your real-life experience.
  • The people you meet.
• You need to master speaking skills, looking good on camera, makeup, video editing.
• You need to standardize before you optimize—even something as small as switching from sleeping at 2 AM to 11 PM makes a massive difference.
• And let’s not forget, group projects in university are worthless when you respect your time too much to work with people who don’t have the same drive.

The Lonely Chapter: A Reality Check

Alex Hormozi said it best: When you are broke and trying to build something from the ground up, you have to go through the lonely chapter.

Every time I start a business, I feel it:

• Opening a payment gateway or setting up a blogging site? Zero support.
• Running multiple business models at once? Haven’t earned a dime yet.
• I lose more money than I earn because learning takes time and money.

And when I look around for help? No one is there. And that’s the biggest realization—it’s me again.

Suddenly, everything we learn in microeconomics about specializing in what we have a comparative advantage in becomes a joke.

The Truth About Success: Jack of All Trades, Master of One

Look at the most successful people—they are not hyper-specialists. They are jack of all trades, master of one.

Take Elon Musk:

• The guy is a genius, but he isn’t the best rocket scientist at SpaceX or the best car engineer at Tesla.
• He understands physics, business, sales, and marketing.
• After uni, he applied for jobs—none of them hired him.

Why I Keep Going: The War Between Comfort & Greatness

While my friends get to enjoy Tet, have family gatherings, and relax, I’m here:

• Hundreds of kilometers from home.
• Locked in a room, grinding.
• Haunted by past business failures.

If I keep going? People don’t understand why I don’t just “enjoy life” like they do.
If I stop? They’ll instantly lose respect for me.

This is the trade-off. Success demands sacrifice.

And the biggest lesson? No one roots for you at the start.

Everyone doubts you until you make it. Then suddenly, they admire you. People only root for winners.

But remember, it’s always darkest before dawn.

The University Illusion vs. Real Life

University prepares you for a battle where you have infinite resources.
Real life throws you into the wilderness with nothing but a stick.

In university:

• You learn how to fight a dragon with an army, money, and resources.

In real life:

• You learn how to fight a bear alone, with a stick.

And the worst part? The people teaching you never fought the battle themselves. Most professors never started businesses. They never had to survive with zero money. They never built something from scratch.

That’s why trying and failing at business teaches you more than university ever will.

So the next time someone tells you to “just focus on studying,” ask yourself—do you want to train for a fake battle, or survive the real one?

Final Words

🚀 Train for the Real Battle—Not the Fake One

Most people spend years preparing for a world that doesn’t exist. They follow the safe path, memorize theories, and hope a degree will magically lead to success.

But the truth? Real life doesn’t care about your GPA.
If you want to actually win, you need to stop training for a fantasy war and start learning how to fight with what you have.

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