I think people are overselling this thing about being an entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur is NOT the obvious path for more people. And when you think about Elon Musk and how he moved from a shy dude in a college bedroom to Tesla’s CEOs, you can’t see what he had to go through.

I am an entrepreneur. I worked the shit out of this world to be where I am today. I had to! But it was not easy. It was not mild. It was brutal. The amount of stress, pressure, worry, etc was more than most humans are capable of dealing with. I started to deal with health problems “normal” people don’t have, especially before 30. My “bad genes” all came and shout. I developed a chronic liver disease that casuses tons of symptoms, the worst of which is preventing my body from detoxing, which inflames my tissues, eyeballs, head, etc. I have to take about $600 worth of supplements every single month (and I am still optimizing), which increased my living expenses a lot - that actually became my highest expense.

Employees, in general, tend to have lives of balance. Waking up at 8am, going to work at 9, go home at 5pm and forget about your job until the next morning. Soccer and family lunch on Sundays. A drink with friends on Friday night. Cinema with their girlfriend/wife on Saturdays. Going for a picknick or a small travel. Picking up the kids and spending time with them every afternoon. I don’t know what that is! I don’t even know how people have time to go to church. The closest I do to that is mediation. But even my meditation sucks. I am always wired, even when I am tired.

Entrepreneurs have no good nights of sleep. They make wake up in the middle of the night to an idea or a phone call. Most of us don’t get more than a few hours of sleep every day, even. I always feel that time is running out. I look at the time about 20 times in the day. It feels that time is running and I can’t keep up. I am too wired and too concerned. As I don’t run my company anymore, I am living a much better life in that sense, but I am still wired and concerned on a daily basis. I feel every other kid will steal my lunch!