Entrepreneurial Insomnia

Mike Cee
2 min readDec 25, 2021

It’s 2:01am and I have a 7am start tomorrow, like most days.

The Yang side of work freedom. A 7AM start to go flying isn’t so bad. It’s all in the packaging. Don’t read the fine print.

The Yin side of Entrepreneurship
And at this ungodly hour, where everything is finally dead silent and a healthy human being is supposed to be asleep, the noise finally goes away.

The result is insomnia. For a mind trained in maximizing these quiet hours, insomnia can be gold.

Photo by Ben Blennerhassett on Unsplash

Insomnia

In the dead of night there are no nagging girlfriends, text messages, to-dos, new leads and inquiries from the business, sports which require the chase of perfect wind, swell, or tides, nor sport bikes; nor a million home improvement items to do with living in material excess in the tropics.

Fuck sleep. I’d rather ruin my serotonin levels just to log this text. And off it goes into the cloud; another drop in the ocean of data that is humanity.

*The Fine Print

Entrepreneurs abuse work freedom and do whatever they want on their own schedule probably a lot more often than they should.

Entremanure. The shit startup founders do & go through…

Insomnia and the 6 Percent Entrepreneur

The Six Percent of people with entrepreneurial traits & Insomnia

If you suspect you always should have been an entrepreneur, check out The Six Percent Entrepreneur Podcast by Robin Copernicus. I personally found a few traits relatable as to why some people big risks and make greath athletes or entrepreneurs.

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