Founders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.
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You’re the CEO If the first step in the process is coming to terms with the fact that no one is coming to save you—there’s no one to take this thing off your hands and champion it the rest of the way home—then the second is realizing that the person who is going to need to step up is you. Many creatives want to be just the creator, or only “the ide
... See moreKnowing you’re being selfish and focusing on something you love rather than working on something that best serves the business can cause a crippling self-hatred.