Create What You Want To See In The World

For the past few months, I’ve been traveling the world. It has been – and still is – one of the most profound experiences of my life. Every day feels like a dream come true – if it weren’t for these particular situations I keep finding myself in.

Even though traveling is many people’s dream, I realized that it’s also one thing: extremely demanding. Every day you have to make decisions on what to do, where to go, how to get there, and with whom you want to experience this adventure. Spending an insurmountable amount of time in booking apps, airports, and taxis taught me one thing: we’re not quite there yet with the greatest customer experience possible.

This doesn’t mean that I look down upon what these companies have created. They’ve built something straight out of a fairy tale (and I haven’t – yet). The magic isn’t the fact that booking a trip two hours before boarding a vehicle that can fly close to the speed of sound and take you to almost anywhere in the world is possible. It’s the fact that it’s become normal. Just imagine telling a farmer in rural Europe 100 years ago that going to a country he didn’t even know existed wouldn’t take him half a lifetime but a day. He would have called it witchcraft – yet we lose our minds when our plane has a delay of thirty minutes.

Yet I still find things to criticize about this amazing human achievement. And that’s great. It means there’s still room for invention and innovation. This doesn’t just go for travel, of course. It’s true in every industry. There’s always room for improvement. We still get to create better products and strive for an even better future. But being angry that no one got rid of the annoyance that you experienced while waiting for it to finally be created is a fruitless endeavor. If you think that something really has to change, you must create the change yourself. And that’s exactly where entrepreneurship comes in.

That’s the beauty of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs are problem solvers, designers, artists, engineers, and leaders rolled into one person. They’re the people who don’t want their vision to stay an idea but to become reality.

That’s why the next time I encounter a problem, I don’t just get upset. I challenge myself to think up a solution for it – and challenge you to do the same.

But a perfect solution isn’t worth anything if it doesn’t get built. This issue is what one of my next blog entries will tackle.

So if you think to yourself, “Man, this really has to change,” then don’t wait for somebody else. Create the change yourself.