Andre Brisson describes how he unconsciously created crises to feel needed once his business became stable. He calls himself an arsonist, burning down routines that bored him, and lost customers, staff, and clients in the process.
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Instead of saying let's take more time or pursue other interests, it was, I need to maintain that pace in that urgency. And that what I now recall as it being the startup phase of a company not knowing what's going to happen. It changes every day to day, but now it's showing up. I know exactly what's going to happen every day. No one needs me. And after a while I start. The customers are starting to frustrate me to know how to just no matter what they said, which is odd, they become dumb and the projects were really silly and stupid and like what? And then all of a sudden I'm putting up fires. I'm going around and around and helping things and feeling good. But I didn't realize I was creating those fires. So I was the arsonist in this case. And that really frustrated customers, that frustrated staff. So I lost good staff and I lost some really good customers. And in the end, it all had to do the fact that I was bored and I thrive on chaos.