Start-up founders might seem like they’ve got it made, but long hours, isolation, and stress put them at risk of mental illness... The key is that struggling is only seen as noble if you ultimately come back from it, proving your mettle.
“You’re rewarded for hiding those feelings or overcoming those feelings,” Campbell says. “Entrepreneurship is all about overcoming. You’re overcoming the adversity of starting a business and creating something from nothing. If you can’t overcome yourself it’s like what the hell are you doing?”
As a result, founders find themselves in a bubble where they can’t talk to anyone about the issues they’re experiencing, says Severson, until they’ve conquered those feelings. You end up feeling “very alone.”
.. He also benefited from eventually discussing his problems with friends and business partners.Campbell’s experience is borne out by the data: Social support has been shown to be one of the biggest protective factors against depression.
Video: Ted Nelson Possiplex book launch (Oct 8, 2010)
- Ted’s grandmother Jean’s life was saved by switching from the Lusitania. I’ll arrange everything. Arnold Genthe meet my friend Ellen Therri (110 min )
- ADD is a cognitive style, sometimes it goes away you adapt. He’s had moments of remarkable concentration. You have to be able to concentrate. (113 min)
- The reason I find stuff other people don’t is that I don’t look under the street lights.
- Possiplexia: freezing, too many possibilities (126 min)
- It is probably hard to open a bad bakery in France because the customers are sophisticated. There are not similarly sophisticated computer customers (127 in)
- Alamo and Chewing Gum connection pointed out in PhD thesis.
- How would Xanadu change the way we write? I can’t talk about how other people would use it.
- Tolstoy used true (paper) copy and paste: his daughters would make 2 copies
- The examples are text based. How does that work for video: Edit Decision Lists can apply to video (It came from Hollywood).
- Hypertext being a serialization of graph structures of our minds. Each assertion is addressable for AI. : Well you’re on a different planet. I’m not interested in AI. (151 min)
- Knoweldge Representation is an Idiotic Term (Knowledge implies belief, not provable belief)
- I have not created a table of statements. I have created a book of sentences.
- DW Griffith
David Brooks: Greatest Soccer Players Mentally Unusual
Soccer comes more easily, but as you improve it is harder and harder to become really good. I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that the greatest of all players, like Diego Maradona or Paul Gascoigne, seem a little mentally unusual. It is as if it takes a slightly off-kilter brain to be a really creative player. Baseball, at the upper reaches, does not reward minor madness; if anything it rewards the ability to not think.
What Neuroscience Has To Say About The ‘Tortured Genius’
And while it’s easy enough to believe that pain helped to fuel the work of Kurt Cobain, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace or Alexander McQueen — to name just a few of the brilliant, creative, successful people who took their own lives after battling mental illness — there is also great art that comes from no pain whatsoever.
.. “One in four people annually in this country has a mental illness that impairs their function. That’s pretty common. The illness is pervasive. Genius is much more rare.”
.. Andreasen told HuffPost that she is currently working on an imaging study using fMRI. She emphasized that the idea of the “tortured genius” is oversimplified, and not one she’s pursuing. “People who are highly creative are intrinsically curious, exploratory, risk-taking, adventurous, and they’re also persistent and somewhat rebellious or unconventional,” she said. “When you have all of those traits, it makes you more vulnerable to rejection … There’s an underlying fundamental way of approaching life and the world that leads to both creativity and vulnerability to mental illness.