ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PAIN TOLERANCE This winter has reminded me once again that

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PAIN TOLERANCE

This winter has reminded me once again that entrepreneurship is determined in no small part by your willingness to work hard while enduring a great deal of emotional and psychological pain at high risk.

I just think that there are too few of us willing to work under those conditions.

For me, I get one thing out of it: the sense of heroic achievement with ‘my guys’.

Entrepreneurship is the closest thing we can do today to conducting warfare.

You can get your high’s from sports, from the military, from entrepreneurship, and from intellectual achievement. I don’t have the physical ability to win at team sports (asthma), although I was better than fair at wrestling other sweaty men, and I will catch a football that comes close to me even if it kills me. And I think I’m probably going to make my dent in intellectual history.

But there is no feeling in this world than leading a group of other men on the hunt to conquer some bit of territory – be it war, sport, business, or intellectual.

Nothing like it at all.

We still seek to be kings. And entrepreneurship is one of the paths available to us.