The two fears every entrepreneur faces
The two fears every entrepreneur faces (and how to get over them) How a simple reminder of our mortality makes us better makers Leon Jacobs Leon Jacobs September 19, 2016 There are two types of fear. First, there is the fear of dying. Then, there’s the fear of living. The fear of dying was hardwired into our DNA thanks to our ancestors slipping off steep ledges or being outrun by hungry predators. The fear of living is a more recent addition and, in the context of modern society, more deadly. Being here, injected into matter, living, breathing and bearing witness to it all, is a wink of the cosmic eyelid. The moment will come for each of us when the game is over. Perhaps it won’t be in the jaws of a peckish lion or slipping off a perilous rock face, but it’s still just that (and taxes). When it’s over you don’t get to put in another coin, go around again to make use of every moment you had to speak up, share your true point of view and make that som...