Dave Kashen compares a startup to a dojo, a training ground that surfaces unhealed emotional wounds. When founders fully love themselves unconditionally, they're less likely to feel triggered by rejection. Business challenges act as mirrors, revealing parts of yourself that haven't been fully integrated yet.
Again, if you're oriented toward, well, life or my startup or my fund is a dojo— I'll keep using that word— a platform for my growth, then a part of you is like, oh, interesting, this is showing me I still have some unhealed stuff, right? Right. Like, I think if you fully love yourself unconditionally, you're less likely to get triggered by somebody else who you perceive to not be loving you or to be rejecting you or not approving of you. So it just shows you, okay, there's still some part of myself that I haven't fully loved or integrated. Like, it's revealing.
