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April 26, 2005
The Merits of Madness
Who knew...Everyone knows entrepreneurs are a little crazy, and a new book claims it's both genetic and very American. In The Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America
, author John D. Gartner claims that the personality traits that define entrepreneurial overachievers, like exceptional energy reserves, gut-instinct decision making, and an affinity for taking risks, are symptoms of hypomania, a psychiatric cousin of bipolar disorder. Gartner suggests the U.S. leads in churning out entrepreneurs because this is a...
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Posted on April 26, 2005 09:35 PM by bipola278.
Filed in Mental Health Update under bipolar disorder.
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