1) you need to overclock your brain to make a startup work. That in turn causes an almost definite case of ADHD. Good luck dealing with that.

Football athletes overclock their bodies (at least compared to the average individual) in a certain way that make them superior at the sport. Startups are mental sports. The rules of mental strain (as opposed to muscle strain) are a lot less clear. In physical sports, we put together a team of individuals whose only goal is to optimize and maximize the success chances of such high performance team. Such a shame that this is not even close to being a common practice in the mental sports of startups.

2) any fast change is expensive for the mind to grasp. We evolved over generations, so for someone to go from 0 to 180 very fast in such a short period of time, also creates a crazy lag effect (working solo to leading a team of 100, survival mode to thriving, poor to rich). Your conscious and subconscious are not in sync. That’s problematic

The mental frameworks and models that made you successful in the early stages of a startup (survival mode mindset) are likely to guarantee your failure if you don’t adapt them to the new reality of the company once things start working (post product market fit / financial stability of the business).