{"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":"

My friend Joshua Ramo just introduced me to the concept of being a Hypomanic<\/a>. I felt at home with it. Both with the good and bad aspects of it. This is what he wrote.
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\n>> >>”In a recent interesting book \u00b3The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little)
\nCraziness and (a Lot of) Success in America\u00b2 author John D. Gartner, an
\nassistant professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins, argues that America\u00b9s success
\nis because American entrepreneurs are largely hypomanic.<\/p>\n

>> >>\u00b3Hypomania is a mild form of mania, often found in the relatives of manic
\ndepressives. Hypomanics are brimming with infectious energy, irrational
\nconfidence and really big ideas. They think, talk, move and make decisions
\nquickly. Anyone who slows them down with questions \u00b3just doesn\u00b9t get it.\u00b2
\nHypomanics are not crazy, but \u00b3normal\u00b2 is not the first word that comes to mind
\nwhen describing them. Hypomanics live on the edge, between normal and abnormal.\u00b2<\/p>\n

>> >>So why are Americans hypomanic? \u00b3Energy, drive, cockeyed optimism,
\nentrepreneurial and religious zeal, Yankee ingenuity, messianism and arrogance \u00ad
\nthe traits have long been attributed to an \u00b3American character.\u00b2 If a scientist
\nwanted to design a giant Petri dish with all the right nutrients to make
\nhypomanic genius flourish, he would be hard-pressed to imagine a better natural
\nexperiment than America. A \u00b3nation of immigrants\u00b2 represents a highly skewered
\nand unusual \u00b3self-selected\u00b2 population. Do men and women who risk everything to
\nleap into a new world differ temperamentally from those who stay home? It would
\nbe surprising if they didn\u00b9t.\u00b2<\/p>\n

>> >>How do you identify a hypomanic? Gartner lists these traits: \u00b3He is filled
\nwith energy; flooded with ideas; driven, restless and unable to keep still;
\nchannels his energy into the achievement of wildly grand ambitions; often works
\non little sleep; feels brilliant, special, chosen, perhaps even destined to
\nchange the world; can be euphoric; becomes easily irritated by minor obstacles;
\nis a risk taker; overspends in both his business and personal life; acts our
\nsexually; sometimes acts impulsively, with poor judgment, in ways that have
\npainful consequences; is fast-talking; witty and gregarious; charismatic and
\npersuasive; prone to making enemies and feels he is persecuted by those who do
\nnot accept his vision and mission.\u00b2”<\/p>\n

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