Startup world impact on health

AAnonymous ·April 30, 2014 ·11 answers

I am a developer with a deep desire in starting my own company with some differentiating technology/product. I spend lot of time reading all the articles/blogs that pass my way.

Recently I had an issue with my health “outburst of anger” for minor things on the people close to me. I visited psychiatrist and she told me that I live in a world where the only desire is to achieve something or do something useful. She specified that my brain can take only one at a time, either job OR personal life OR startup world. She also recommend to me to drop the desire to become an entrepreneur and I would be perfectly fine.

What to do now? Leave my entrepreneur dream and do my developer job? Or, leave my job and move onto the entrepreneurial path?

Sometimes I hate myself for these outbursts I have on the people I love for very basic things that anyone tells someone in a relationship.

11 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

I'd change my psychiatrist.

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

You went to a psychiatrist and didn't get drugs? You realize that's what the psychiatrist's job is, right?

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

Sad.

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

Exercise, exercise, exercise. And sleep well.

Everything else will fall into place.

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

Your personality is very similar to Steve Jobs. He had outbursts all the time, and did terrible things to those closest to him as well as his employees. So, I would say that you're on your way to creating the next Apple! : )

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

Well, Steve Jobs was a bit of a design freak who loved himself and had great ideas. Maybe it wasn't the outbutsts that made him great, in the same I'm pretty sure cocaine wasn't what made the Rolling Stones amazing.

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2014

Obviously, I was joking. Steve Jobs succeeded in spite of himself. By this I mean that ordinarily a guy with his personality would have failed big time because he was so terrible to deal with.

But, he succeeded because his other talents made up for his shortcomings. His ability to design and market products, and attract the best talent were what made him successful.

His charisma attracted great engineers like Steve Wozniak, who was the one that built the first Apple. Without Wozniak, Jobs would not have been able to do it, but it's his ability to attract talented people with his charisma and use that same charisma to sell products that made him who he was.

AAnonymous· May 1, 2014

You absolutely need to work on your outbursts. No one deserves to be treated that way. It's accross the line and it's abusive.

Grow up and prevent yourself from having outbursts like a teenager.

AAnonymous· May 4, 2014

I think it's you who need to grow up in the first place. He's trying to work on it and you're behaving like a c*nt.

AAnonymous· May 1, 2014

That's all your psychiatrist suggested for your anger management? Did you hear everything that was said or just hold on to the bits that are about giving up on your dream rather than protecting the people close to you?

AAnonymous· May 2, 2014

prioritize:

1. HEALTH

2. FITNESS

3. WORK

4. RELATIONSHIPS

etc. Then if you go out of balance you know what to work on. Also, without health or fitness, you will not achieve anything lasting, imho.

Startup world impact on health

11 answers from the community

More Stories

We’re Shutting Down and I’m Scared

Hiring girls is difficult (because very few work in the space)

Startup ran out of funding before the launch; had to go on the road, couch surfing for two months

Co-founders wife getting in the way.