Totally tangental, but I recalled while reading this a documentary I saw on some African tribe. It was years ago so this is a pretty loose description. The trib

Totally tangental, but I recalled while reading this a documentary I saw on some African tribe. It was years ago so this is a pretty loose description. The tribe was a late discovered tribe that until shortly before the documentaries filming had been hunting and gathering in some remote jungle. Recently some industry expansion into their territory had forced modern life onto them and the government had moved them to a new location. This new environment lacked pretty much everything they needed to maintain their old life, so they had become completely destitute and reliant on the government. Their chief was a rain maker shaman kind of character. His job was to do a literal rain dance, which in their old lives would have been to water crops. This dance would involve the entire tribe when times were tough. When the chief was interviewed he was sober about their situation. The new life they were forced into lead to depression for many of the young men in the tribe. He felt that his responsibility was to keep the young men dancing. This was better than them sitting around taking handouts from the government. They interspersed snippets of the young men talking about their chief and they all were positive, giving him much praise. The chief never missed a day of dancing, always had a positive attitude and this seemed to give them some hope. The chief mentioned that his father had been the rain man before him, and his grandfather before that. He said that the secret of the rain dance was that no matter how long it takes, it will rain again. And what can you do until it rains? You might as well dance. I often think of some forms of entrepreneurs/founders in this context. They are just like tribal rain men. If they dance long enough, it rains. They aren't really responsible for the rain but they keep everyone hopeful and around long enough that when it finally does rain everyone is ready.