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Hank Wuh: Not Everyone is Built to be an Entrepreneur

Name: Hank Wuh: Not Everyone is Built to be an Entrepreneur
Uploaded: 2013-02-12T18:24:03+00:00
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Channel: GHION.AI
Description: In this interview excerpt, the host asks Hank Wuh to clarify what a "high tolerance of pain" means. Wuh answers by drawing on his experience playing…

12 Feb 2013 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, the host asks Hank Wuh to clarify what a "high tolerance of pain" means. Wuh answers by drawing on his experience playing soccer, describing training sessions that pushed him to his limits and emphasizing that enduring such hardship is largely a mental game requiring mental toughness. He extends the analogy to entrepreneurship, arguing that just as certain body types suit specific sports, only some people thrive in the uncertain, challenging, and imperfect conditions of entrepreneurship. He stresses that this is not a moral judgment—people differ in their natural fit for entrepreneurial environments.

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When you say high tolerance of pain, could you give an example, even more specific of what you mean by that in that context?
Do you play sports? I used to play sports. Yeah, what did you play? Soccer. Soccer, and what was training like when you were playing soccer? Were there days when you were pushed so hard that you just think, oh my gosh, I cannot, go another 5 minutes. Would you say it's like more of a mental game then? More of what? A mental game? A mental game? Oh, absolutely. Oh, absolutely. It's very much a mental game, sure. It requires a certain amount of mental toughness, I think. I mean, it's not for everyone. Everyone's different, right? It's about casting life, right? If you're really tall and thin, you shouldn't be a wrestler, you should be a volleyball or basketball player. Entrepreneurship is the same thing. Some people thrive in conditions where there is uncertainty and there is challenges and imperfection. Other people really hate that. So it really selects for different sort of people, no right or wrong, no good or bad, just everybody is different basically. And so—