Umgang mit dem Stress als Unternehmer

0:00It's It's interesting how stressful entrepreneurship can be because of uncertainty. And so, like right now, if you were to look back the last 15 years, we'd say something to the degree of, "Man, the stock market just went up 15 straight years. Like this was amazing. What a time to have invested, right?" Um and Morgan Housel wrote a little blog about this, and so I thought it was so interesting. He said, uh "Wait a second, that's that's not true."

0:26Like we we had a 20% dip in 2011. We had a dip in in 2016. Uh 2020 obviously happened in that period of time. Uh we had wars that didn't end. Um and so all of these things were kind of happening, and I say this not as a political statement, but more so that um everything everything seems better in retrospect because there is no uncertainty. We know how the story ends.

0:49And so I think in some ways it's like that can give us certainty that our current situation despite the fact that it feels terrible it we it always resolves or we die. And so like if you die, you don't have to worry about it. And if it resolves, you don't have to worry about it. Uh and so that's kind of been a helpful framework for me because I think a lot of the stuff of what makes entrepreneurship difficult isn't isn't really the tactics. Like learning the things that you have to do, those are just kind of knowledge deficiencies, and we have to learn those for sure. But I think everyone here would agree that that's not what makes your job every day hard.

1:23Like learning how to set up landing page maybe you don't know how to do it, but like it's not it's not going to kill you, you know, to learn it. It's when, you know, your manager leaves and takes half of your team, and all of a sudden your payment processor shuts down, and you've got leads that are coming in, but you can't make payroll. Like that's the stuff that makes it really stressful. The actual tactics of business are relatively straightforward. And so, um I say this just as a reminder almost to myself that um it's you know, the future is likely going to be better. The past is not as good as it as we remember it to be.

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