You have to be mad head to run your enterprise, the main reason being uncertainty. You are on a treadmill and a vicious cycle of things working and not working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every other day in the founder’s journey is a challenge: customers leaving, employees leaving, or failing product timelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Media only glorifies the founder’s life, unicorn status, or founder 30 under 30. They don’t talk about the constant struggle, uncertainty, and failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To sail through the entrepreneurship journey: you become more stoic and have a self-belief that comes what may: we will survive. It’s just another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions<\/em>.<\/p>Epictetus, The Enchiridion\u00a0<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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You have to be mad head to run your enterprise, the main reason being uncertainty. You are on a treadmill and a vicious cycle of things working and not working. Every other day in the founder’s journey is a challenge: customers leaving, employees leaving, or failing product timelines. Media only glorifies the founder’s life, unicorn … <\/p>\n