Psychoanalyzing Entrepreneurs: They're Wacky
Amusing excerpt from a longer research piece psycho-analyzing the entrepreneurial mindset:
In the entrepreneurial theater a need for control, a sense of distrust, a desire for applause, and resorting to primitive defensive mechanisms such as splitting, projection, denial, and the flight into action (“the manic defense”) appear to be common. The behavior of a number of entrepreneurs also seems to have a cyclothymic [ed., bipolar disorder] quality. Moreover, for many of them, their…
