Entrepreneurship ruined my life.

02 Sep, 2022

Recently I read the Google Document Why are entrepreneurs so miserable? (archive) by Andrew Ryder.

And in the document, he says this:

I was once a happy kid, full of optimism and joy.

But my desire for success hardened into a constant anxiety of never doing enough and never being good enough in the online business game. I could see the stress and aging in the lines on my face.

I wasn’t the same person as before. And I wasn’t the person that I wanted to be.

Entrepreneurship ruined my life.

To be honest, I cannot stress how true this is to me, even though I'm just a young teenager.

I have sacrificed everything I have: My family, my friends, and even my health. Just to chase the mystical prize that is "success".

Yet it feels like I am not any closer to achieving my dreams.

In the TV series Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby—the gang leader turned businessman turned politician—is having a conversation with Winston Churchill. They are trying to figure out how they’re going to defeat their opposition in the coming elections.

And between these points, Shelby notes something interesting:

“I have three gardeners. Men who have no ambition, and yet are all happier than I’ll ever be.”

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If you have read the original Google Document, you may have realized that I stole a lot of parts from the document to this post. Mostly because I agreed with them and they are so good not to include them.

#business #post #pernament

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