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fastcompany.com
- Companies need financial capital. But they also need emotional capital—good energy, positivity, and resilience. Ironically, being surrounded by close friends and having a strong support system is the best source of emotional capital for founders.
from Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital by Sari Azout
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- Beware entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs are also more susceptible to burnout as they are almost 25% more likely to experience mental health issues. The reasons why include that entrepreneurs tend to have an intense and intimate connection with their businesses and they often link their self worth directly to their business success.
from Getting Better at Burnout by Mich Bondesio
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- Founders are striving to do something more innovative, uncertain, and psychologically demanding than most of us ever try to do—many with potentially large impacts on the world—and yet their distinct psychological needs have gone largely unstudied and unaddressed. And despite the many headlines signaling a “mental health crisis in startups,” with se... See more
from The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious by Gena Gorlin
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- A common trigger of founder burnout is finding yourself working on things that you hate.
from The role of the CEO: managing yourself – High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
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The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
by Emma Seppala
- How can I maintain my creativity, optimism, intellectual vitality, and sense of agency in the face of the stress that comes from building a company and the endless forces luring towards conformity?
We start raw, then our hearts and minds get boiled by constraints, pressure, feedback, and challenges. How do we keep our head up and maintain our creat... See morefrom My Favorite Questions by sari azout
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While doing the reporting for my book, I read a postmortem from a successful startup founder. They said something along the lines of: “One of the best things that can happen to you is to achieve professional success when you’re young. That way you can learn that it does little to change your happiness.” For better or worse, achieving your goals sho
... See morefrom On the Value of Not Reaching Your Goals by Every
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