The Pain Of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is tough as hell. Never have I had a moment in my life where I've had to solve so many problems at once. And let's face it, solving problems is not easy because you're constantly required to make decisions.

The etymology of the word "decide" comes from the Latin root decidere which literally means "to cut off." So when you make a decision, you are cutting yourself off from an idea, from a fantasy, from the imaginative realm. When you make a decision, you are facing and participating with material reality. Entrepreneurship is painful because you're constantly being asked to cut yourself off from your thoughts––from the blissful world that resides in the corridors of your mind. Entrepreneurship is painful because your reality is not filtered by thought––it is primal and naked to the essence of action.

The sacrifice within the decidere gem is purely this: you're no longer living for personal bliss, instead you're helping to create bliss for the collective. So it's okay: continue to cut yourself off from the Ideal, and bridge yourself to the other world––the world of the Real.