Running a business keeps you in the weeds. You do everything, and you carry everything. Alone.
And we choose it, mostly. We like control. Feedback's hard.
More than half the time, we're just making it up and hoping nobody notices.
The self-reliance that makes you good at this is the same thing hollowing you out. You get better at carrying it alone, and lonelier at the same time.
I learnt the hard way that going it alone isn't possible. It's just not. One person who gets the mad world you've built - it's not a nice-to-have, it's the difference between lasting and not.
Without it, there's a hollow right at your centre. You can run a whole business around that gap and never see it.
Find your people. Not for the networking - for the gap.
