What Makes Them Entrepreneurial? #33
Aditya July 30th
Their temperament for stress craving
Targeted Audience: Entrepreneur
I recently talked to one of my friends who is a co-founder of a web startup. He is one of the most passionate persons that I know. He has taken bold steps and high risks in his life to dive into his dream activity – starting his own startup. When I tried to understand how he took so much risk, all I could see is – his craving to work on exciting stuff in challenging and stressful environment. He is one of those rare kinds of species, who hates the slow routine at the job life. Yes, it sounds weird, but he loves crisis and stress, and he performs his best during such situations. For such human kinds, excitement is the key thing.
The tales they tell – of climbing crumbling rock faces, of steering kayaks swamped in rapids, of starting businesses that nearly collapsed – might make you wonder if the prospect of failure thrills them even more than the promise of success.
It seems that for such kind of people, the risk taking process is far more rewarding than achieving success in the end. Though it sounds irrational, I think such people enjoy tragedy situations more than the victory moments.
Entrepreneurs are also very known for such excitement-craving temperaments. They prefer challenging and crisis situations than smooth businesses days. I recently read this in a book called – The Innovation Paradox –
Research on entrepreneurial attitudes suggests that orderly settings cause these risk takers more pain than the chaotic ones. “We’ve days when it’s kind of smooth,” the owner of food manufacturing company told Inc. magazine, “but those are not my greatest days.” The founder of a restaurant chain concurred. “My eyes light up when I hear of a crisis,” he said.
I think there are such people who thrive in the midst of chaos and loose focus when things are going smoothly. Such risk taking entrepreneurs don’t just cope up well with tremendous stress of starting their own startup, but they crave for it.
Note: To read more articles from this series, please visit: What Makes Them Entrepreneurial?
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