psychological price ofentrepreneurship

[guerilla]

Love Watterson's art. Love Watterson's message.

That's pretty much been my life for the last two years. It's not that I am not trying to achieve things, and indeed I feel like the last two years of my life have seen my most significant personal growth and accomplishment, but that I am achieving things on my schedule and my way.

None of this break neck, "adderall adderall", grind grind grind, 23 hour day stuff though. I am done with that.

I get people ask me at least once a week,

"What new products do you have?"

"What are you working on now?"

One can sense the air leave the conversation as I say, "Same project as last year, it's my only one."

I feel that one has to commit to something to make it successful, but not in such a way that they destroy themselves before they can enjoy it.

 

[gbmack]

You can get stressed only if you are stressable. Once you get used to endless cycle of boom and bust, success and failure, stress doesn't really have affect on you. You have a choice to be stressed and act out of fear or to adequately respond to circumstances.

Life will never throw at you something that you cannot overcome.

This.

Pleasure replaces stress in the long run.

That's pretty much been my life for the last two years. It's not that I am not trying to achieve things, and indeed I feel like the last two years of my life have seen my most significant personal growth and accomplishment, but that I am achieving things on my schedule and my way.

None of this break neck, "adderall adderall", grind grind grind, 23 hour day stuff though. I am done with that.


I feel that one has to commit to something to make it successful, but not in such a way that they destroy themselves before they can enjoy it.

You get it.

 

[Second]

How about psychological price of not being an entrepreneur..

This. My parents are old school and never got it. They made my entrepreneurial aspirations twice as hard. Now that they see everyone else my age struggling to land jobs and I have a steady stream of clients they have stfu.

 

[igl00]

I used to be proud I was the hardest worker. Now I try to be a lot more chill about everything. And I get just as much done in a fraction of the time.

i was always tellign u about chill and games, i deserve some rep points here!

 

[JakeStratham]

That's pretty much been my life for the last two years. It's not that I am not trying to achieve things, and indeed I feel like the last two years of my life have seen my most significant personal growth and accomplishment, but that I am achieving things on my schedule and my way.

None of this break neck, "adderall adderall", grind grind grind, 23 hour day stuff though. I am done with that.

I get people ask me at least once a week,

"What new products do you have?"

"What are you working on now?"

One can sense the air leave the conversation as I say, "Same project as last year, it's my only one."

I feel that one has to commit to something to make it successful, but not in such a way that they destroy themselves before they can enjoy it.

I am so glad you feel this way.

Some people seem designed to pour themselves into an endless stream of projects. The projects themselves mean little to them personally. Each one inevitably leads to another.

If they experience joy from that process, that's fantastic. What a great fit! Not many people can do it and derive fulfillment from it over the long run. It's fun when you're young, but gets old when you're old. In the time we've known each other, I've gotten the feeling that that won't suffice.

I'll keep my reasons for feeling this way to myself.