A veteran entrepreneur explains how military training to suppress emotions backfires in business. Without an outlet after service, bottled feelings hurt performance and wellbeing. He recommends building a support system—a board, coach, therapist, or friend—to process what you're carrying.
really beneficial in the military. If you need to execute a mission and you have emotions that are coming up about things that are going on at home or, you know, whatever, you do have to box those up and shove those down and get the job done. But that doesn't serve us in business. We're not getting shot at in business. And, you know, I think a disservice the military does is not giving us a place to unwind those emotions as we leave. And so realize that you're going to go through a lot of emotions, and keeping those bottled up inside, they have to go somewhere. So make sure that Either you have a board or a coach or a therapist or a friend, whoever it is that you can talk to about the things that are happening because they're real and they're scary and they're hard and other people are experiencing those too. You're not alone.
