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Chapter 1: Leaning Into Nothingness: The Emotional Truth of Creating - The Weight of Today
Entrepreneurship, innovation, and even education are often celebrated as inherently positive pursuits—acts of courage, creativity, and vision. At their core, they are simple in theory: taking something away from today to invest in tomorrow. Yet beneath this idealized view lies a far more unsettling reality.
The truth is, we don’t know if we’re taking too much or too little away from today. We don’t know what tomorrow holds, nor do we know what will pay off in the long run. The real outcomes? They’re invisible, sometimes unknowable, for 30 years or more. That uncertainty creates a void—a deep…
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