While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.
As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.
What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.