Why you Need to be Insane to Become a Billionaire

Entrepreneurs are all broken in some way

Ubiquitously, there is something missing which compels us to pursue avenues which are uncertain in hope of realising/finding something we lack and have been unable to satisfy elsewhere.

That desire requires subsistence in the form of external gratification. That can come in the form of success, acknowledgement or praise and manifests itself as an unwavering, often desperate, lust to achieve. Whether that is in hope of impressing someone else, proving something to myself in the process or not, their is an unquenchable thirst to do something significant.

Married to that is often an internal suffering. A desperation to acquire information in order to feel adequate. That is the fire that fuels the grit, determination and relentless hunger to create something which other people can use. Difficult times — whether that is the experience of bullying, financial strife or loss — harden us like pressure turning carbon to diamond. Without that pressure the carbon would remain worthless, but with it the atoms of irrelevancy are rearranged to form something of unique and pristine value.

That is what entrepreneurship is fundamentally. Taking information that is worthless and underappreciated and rearranging it to creating something…