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How I learned resilience from a jammed toilet door

It was a really hot session and I was so pressed that I had to quickly rush towards the public toilet in the building to take a pee. Upon getting to the door of the toilet, I tried the locks to get it opened but it wouldn't budge so I assumed it was locked or engaged. Though I tried the lock only once, I assumed someone must have locked it from behind since it didn't open. I retreated to 'go do the do' at some other place, but just then someone else walked past me towards the door, turned the knob, and pushed it open. The door was only jammed and needed an extra push. The other fellow knew the 'formula' to get the door opened while I was retreating with a false assumption. Since it's a public toilet I assumed someone must be engaged and locked it from behind... Assumptions! Like the analogy in the story above, so many times entrepreneurs in business, especially young budding entrepreneurs/startuppers, are "pressed" with ideas so much that they has