I was talking with a friend the other day about how I was building qrisper.com.  He was quite impressed with the amount that I had accomplished so far and at some point said something like, “Dude, at least you fing took the initiative and actually built something, not like the 90% of the population that just sits at home watching fing LOST all day (sorta also paraphrasing @garyvee).

To the uninitiated, that sounds like a tremendous compliment.  And while I truly appreciated the sentiment, I had fast discovered that taking that first step was merely a formality and, for the most part, completely meaningless.   Because once you’re over on the other side, you quickly realize that there are tens of thousands of people that are just as determined, if not more so, and they’re all a lot smarter than you.  They all took that first step months, nay years ago, and are already way ahead of you in terms of building the next great thing and pursuing that same pool of funding.

So to summarize, being an entrepreneur isn’t glamorous, it does nothing for your health and you will most likely fail.  Yet for some reason, I want nothing more than to keep going and prove everyone wrong.  That researcher who said that entrepreneurs aren’t risk tolerant, just overconfident in their abilities…think he had something there.

Slightly off-tangent but this is probably why the U.S. has such a history of entrepreneurship.  We’re instilled into our identity starting from grade school that we can accomplish anything, as long as we put our minds to it and ignore all of the naysayers.  And if you believe this article, that could also explain why Americans have the highest rate of depression in the world.

Anyway, to end on a pseudo-positive note, last night I dreamt that I was climbing a mountain covered in poop.  Each time I went to grab onto something, I got nothing but a palm full of sticky, brown poop.  It was the largest amount of poop that I ever handled in my dreams, ever.  Touching poop = $$$ (in Korea anyway).  Looks like I have a mountain of cash headed my way!  Yay!