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The Mask of being an Entrepreneur | Mark Fujiwara

17 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A YouTube interview-style video ("The Mask of being an Entrepreneur | Mark Fujiwara") in which speakers describe how entrepreneurs often hide or mask mental-health struggles. The speaker explains that friends and family may not understand the emotional volatility of entrepreneurship — periods of rapid progress can be followed by setbacks that amplify anxiety, depression, anger, and isolation, particularly when non-entrepreneurs can't relate.

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My own friends and family don't really get me. And then they see that I'm an entrepreneur and I do well, right? That's, that's the, that's the image that they see. So it's very difficult for an entrepreneur to talk to a regular person, a non entrepreneur, and say, hey, I'm struggling. I'm, I'm depressed. I'm so anxious about what's on the other side of this. Oh, gosh, I'm get. I get so angry when things don't work out. They don't get that because of the fact that it's a certain. Of course you have to live it. But I feel with all those components, I mean, it happens on a regular basis, right? We could be going, you get this, we can go straight up, this happened in yesterday. It's going right in the right direction. And then something throws it off, right? Oh, this is uncertain. And all of a sudden my mental health struggles, which is like this small, become this big, and it starts to grow and grow, especially if we don't have someone right next to us that completely gets us.