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What resilience tells us about entrepreneurs

By Administrator | 16 August 2018

What’s it called when you feel like crap and want to chuck it all in and go live in the jungle away from anything that even remotely reminds you of your bloody business, but still manage to drag yourself out of bed to get ready for a breakfast meeting even though you were up until 3am trying to sort out the latest minor mishap on this brainwave project you thought sounded like a brilliant idea but might actually have been a brainfart of epic proportions?

Resilience? Or insanity? Not entirely sure which. There’s probably some overlap there. I’ll go with resilience for now.

You can have the most brilliant idea in the world, a great team of people around you, and oodles of funding to go with it, but if you’re trying to build a world-class business as an entrepreneur, it’s almost entirely guaranteed to be a bumpy ride. You will have wonderful highs and some gut-wrenching lows — sometimes all in the one day. Read more

Fi Bendall - SmartCompany - 15 August 2018

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