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On the flip side, entrepreneurs know they have to deploy an airtight reality distortion field. When dealing with the outside world, sure, the appearance of hav
by Silhouette 9y ago
On the flip side, entrepreneurs know they have to deploy an airtight reality distortion field.
When dealing with the outside world, sure, the appearance of having faith in your business is important. But believing your own hype to the point of wildly overestimating your prospects doesn't seem like a healthy characteristic in anyone running a business. At some point it's probably going to lead to bad decision-making.
- jaggederest 9y agoPeople seem unlikely to consider a VC survey to be the place to confess their deepest fears honestly. As in a job interview, if someone asked "What is your biggest flaw as an employee?" They are unlikely to get a useful reply: "Sometimes I work so hard that I make other people feel bad" perhaps