{"id":782,"date":"2007-05-17T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T08:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=782"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T10:32:35","slug":"are-entrepreneurs-hypomanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Are Entrepreneurs Hypomanic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Joshua Ramo just introduced me to the concept of being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmanweb.com\/hypomanic_nation.htm\">Hypomanic<\/a>.  I felt at home with it.  Both with the good and bad aspects of it.   This is what he wrote.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n>> >>&#8221;In a recent interesting book \u00b3The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little)<br \/>\nCraziness and (a Lot of) Success in America\u00b2 author John D. Gartner, an<br \/>\nassistant professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins, argues that America\u00b9s success<br \/>\nis because American entrepreneurs are largely hypomanic.<\/p>\n<p>>> >>\u00b3Hypomania is a mild form of mania, often found in the relatives of manic<br \/>\ndepressives. Hypomanics are brimming with infectious energy, irrational<br \/>\nconfidence and really big ideas. They think, talk, move and make decisions<br \/>\nquickly. Anyone who slows them down with questions \u00b3just doesn\u00b9t get it.\u00b2<br \/>\nHypomanics are not crazy, but \u00b3normal\u00b2 is not the first word that comes to mind<br \/>\nwhen describing them. Hypomanics live on the edge, between normal and abnormal.\u00b2<\/p>\n<p>>> >>So why are Americans hypomanic? \u00b3Energy, drive, cockeyed optimism,<br \/>\nentrepreneurial and religious zeal, Yankee ingenuity, messianism and arrogance \u00ad<br \/>\nthe traits have long been attributed to an \u00b3American character.\u00b2 If a scientist<br \/>\nwanted to design a giant Petri dish with all the right nutrients to make<br \/>\nhypomanic genius flourish, he would be hard-pressed to imagine a better natural<br \/>\nexperiment than America. A \u00b3nation of immigrants\u00b2 represents a highly skewered<br \/>\nand unusual \u00b3self-selected\u00b2 population. Do men and women who risk everything to<br \/>\nleap into a new world differ temperamentally from those who stay home? It would<br \/>\nbe surprising if they didn\u00b9t.\u00b2<\/p>\n<p>>> >>How do you identify a hypomanic? Gartner lists these traits: \u00b3He is filled<br \/>\nwith energy; flooded with ideas; driven, restless and unable to keep still;<br \/>\nchannels his energy into the achievement of wildly grand ambitions; often works<br \/>\non little sleep; feels brilliant, special, chosen, perhaps even destined to<br \/>\nchange the world; can be euphoric; becomes easily irritated by minor obstacles;<br \/>\nis a risk taker; overspends in both his business and personal life; acts our<br \/>\nsexually; sometimes acts impulsively, with poor judgment, in ways that have<br \/>\npainful consequences; is fast-talking; witty and gregarious; charismatic and<br \/>\npersuasive; prone to making enemies and feels he is persecuted by those who do<br \/>\nnot accept his vision and mission.\u00b2&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=782\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Joshua Ramo just introduced me to the concept of being a Hypomanic. 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