Reader, Would Sherlock be a good entrepreneur? 🕵️

I love sports. While I only excelled at swimming, I played many other sports (poorly, but still). It has given me a fair share of injuries too - a torn right ACL, a left groin tear, a troubled left shoulder...well, let me stop there.

I promise that I am not venting. It is just that this made me appreciate the beautiful way in which our human body works together. As I spend most of my time building my startup, I couldn't help but draw some lessons for it. My broad learning: To be a good doctor OR an entrepreneur, you need to be a smart detective and a scientist.

Today, I tell you one such experience at Flexiple that needed these skills. Read more in my article. If you like it, I would love your support on Twitter :).

Would Sherlock have been a good entrepreneur?
Let me preface the article with an experience that backs my above claim.

I had intense pain in my left shoulder. Most people (even trained physios) attributed it to an injury in the area or lack of strength in the associated muscles. None of their treatments worked. Enter Syed, a physio-Sherlock.

You see, each part of our body is intricately connected. Here's his narrative, à la Cumberbatch rant:

• Your pain started because of a tight left calf muscle (leg)
• That made your left hamstring tight (leg) and you started walking lopsided
• This loaded your back inappropriately and altered your posture
• Your shoulder tilted over time and now pains like hell

Whew!

Now, I am not saying that things always play out in such a complicated fashion. Occam's razor - we should always start with the simplest explanation. Syed did do that. But he also was able to test his hypothesis and move on to spotting & connecting dots beyond the obvious.

I have found this ability to be critical in solving both the mystery of body pain and any growth problems at your startup.

Let's unravel a mystery together
I want to share one such mystery to you. That of a painful problem at Flexiple. A couple of years back, three clients approached us concurrently. None hired from us. We seemed to be doing things correctly and yet this! More about it here: https://2.flexiple.com/newsletter/would-sherlock-be-a-good-entrepreneur.

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Thanks,
Karthik

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