{"id":2374,"date":"2016-07-06T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2016-07-05T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T05:41:34","slug":"invest-in-your-friendships-outside-the-entrepreneurial-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/invest-in-your-friendships-outside-the-entrepreneurial-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Burnout\u2014From a Serial Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Back when I was a young entrepreneur<\/strong>, I spent nearly every waking moment working on my startup. There was always more I could do, so I shunned time with friends thinking it \u201cwasteful\u201d and \u201cunproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How wrong I was.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"right\"><p>Seeing friends regularly provides as much happiness as an extra $97,000 per year in earnings.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hjH3Fj&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Seeing friends often provides as much happiness as extra $97,000 per year in earnings&quot; @chrisyeh\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The science of positive psychology has taught us a lot about the importance and power of friendship. A study in the UK showed that seeing friends regularly provides as much happiness as an extra $97,000 per year in earnings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes Chris,\u201d you might say, \u201cBut $97,000 is chump change in comparison to the good I\u2019m trying to bring about in the world.  Taking that time away from my company would be selfish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wrong, wrong, wrong. <\/p>\n<p>The work of performance psychologist Jim Loehr has established that business athletes are like sports athletes. We\u2019re more productive when we alternate focused sprints and recovery time, rather than when we try to gut out 100-hour weeks. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K._Anders_Ericsson\" target=\"_blank\">K. Anders Ericsson<\/a>\u2019s work on deliberate practice shows that while greatness requires 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, it\u2019s almost impossible to spend more than four hours per day on deliberate practice because of the intensity of focus it requires.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>We\u2019re more productive when we alternate focused sprints with recovery time.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hjH3Fj&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;We\u2019re more productive when we alternate focused sprints with recovery time&quot; @chrisyeh\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s really selfish is closing yourself off from the relationships that matter and the people who care about you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear you loud and clear Chris,\u201d you could concede, \u201cBut I\u2019ve got a great idea\u2014what if I focus on friendships with fellow founders? They\u2019ll understand my challenges and be better able to help me.\u201d It\u2019s certainly helpful to have friendships with people like you. But it\u2019s also important to have friendships with people who live very different lives.<\/p>\n<p>Frans Johansson, the author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Medici-Effect-Elephants-Epidemics-Innovation\/dp\/1422102823\" target=\"_blank\">The Medici Effect<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Click-Moment-Seizing-Opportunity-Unpredictable\/dp\/1591844932\" target=\"_blank\">The Click Moment<\/a>,\u201d has written about how much innovation stems from \u201cintersectional\u201d thinking that combines two or more cultures or disciplines. Talking through your problems with fellow founders will feel good and help you follow what received wisdom considers best practices. Talking through your problems with friends outside of the entrepreneurial world will take longer and feel less comfortable, but these conversations will thus create unique innovation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"right\"><p>Greatness requires 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, but it\u2019s almost impossible to spend more than 4 hours on it per day.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hjH3Fj&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Greatness requires 10,000 hrs of deliberate practice but we can only do 4 hrs per day&quot; @chrisyeh\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, I\u2019m still an entrepreneur, but I\u2019m also older and wiser. I make time to talk with my friends, and it doesn\u2019t even have to cut into my work hours. For example, I can call my East Coast friends on my drive in to work in the morning and my West Coast friends on my drive home at night. Giving myself the chance to recover from the marathon of work leaves me more energized and productive.<\/p>\n<p>I share my challenges with fellow entrepreneurs and people from the startup world, but I also talk with friends who are doctors, lawyers, teachers, and more. Not only does this help strengthen my relationships, but it also gives me insights that those who take a more blinkered approach tend to miss.<\/p>\n<p>When\u2019s the last time you spoke with a close friend from outside your industry or the startup world? Do you have close friends whom you\u2019re starting to drift away from because talking with them doesn\u2019t serve a \u201cbusiness\u201d purpose? How many old friends can you reconnect with in the coming week?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\"><p>What\u2019s really selfish is closing yourself off from relationships that matter and people who care about you.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hjH3Fj&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;What\u2019s selfish is closing off relationships that matter and people who care about you&quot; @chrisyeh\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> Since this piece came out, we\u2019ve seen a number of high-profile suicides in the tech world.  The pressures of entrepreneurship, especially when things aren\u2019t going well, are intense.  And while many entrepreneurs are willing to share the good times with fellow entrepreneurs, they\u2019re highly reluctant to share just how dire their startup\u2019s situation might be.  Having friends outside the startup world is a key way to combat this pressure\u2014your old friends don\u2019t give a damn how your metrics look, or who\u2019s dropped out of your latest round.  They just give a damn about you, which is far more important.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This post originally published in August 2013. It has been updated and reposted to inspire further conversation.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneurial life is intense and all-consuming. 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