Driven entrepreneurs thrive in chaos but sabotage themselves when things go well, creating fake crises to feel alive again. The fix: recognize when you're safe and resist the urge to blow things up. Staying calm during stability, not just crisis, is what lets you actually scale.
So if you have a driven personality type, which I would argue that most entrepreneurs do, what happens is when we are thrust into a situation that would put normal people into fight or flight mode, we actually drop into calm in the chaos. And this is a very useful evolutionary adaptation, except for when we're safe. And when we're safe, what we'll actually do is we will throw a wrench into the mix. We will self-sabotage in order to create chaos so that we can elicit that high performance. And so I see this all the time with entrepreneurs when it comes to business, everything starts going smoothly. They'll acquire a new company, they'll launch a new marketing campaign, fire, you know, their leadership team because they're actually addicted to having problems to solve. And they feel like the only way that they can perform their best is when their back's against the wall. So the trick is to recognize when we're actually safe and resist that urge to self-sabotage and generate chaos and actually drop into calm when things aren't falling apart. And so If you can actually make that leap, make that transition from only thriving in chaos to find a way to continue to be calm when things are going well, that's the key to starting to scale and, and get out of the constant chaos.
