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Let's keep in mind that entrepreneurs are dreamers, delusional even. We take incredible risks and are willing to suffer to create something we can be proud of.
by contextual 13y ago
Let's keep in mind that entrepreneurs are dreamers, delusional even. We take incredible risks and are willing to suffer to create something we can be proud of.
To wit: I once worked so obsessively on a project I forgot about making money for rent. That's right, my mind was in a constant deep flow state for weeks on end, and rent (among other things like exercise and socializing) slipped my mind.
I ended up losing my apartment and being forced to sleep in a friend's basement for a month.
- kintamanimatt 13y agoI completely can understand that. We entrepreneurs have such an irrational and excessive belief in our own future prospects that we tend to discount the present, often to our own detriment. I know I've gone down this path before myself which is why I'm giving the advice I'm giving. OP must take care of today, as unsexy as it is, for the long-term to be a possibility. It's a case of one career paying for the other until the second is all that's required.