Entrepreneur’s High, Taste for the Sea

The Entrepreneur’s High

As an entrepreneur, life instantly becomes an amazing 3d animated adventure the very first time you create something from nothing and it begins to truly work as you envisioned it could. It’s THE ULTIMATE rush. It’s like getting your Golden Ticket. Better than the best sex ever.

How can it not be really?  Starting stuff up is all about birth.

Seriously, it’s what an entrepreneur lives for really. It’s our reason for being. And once you get a little of it, well, you’ve got to have more.

For the last three days I have had the profound privilege of teaching IAE students how to dig deep and awaken their sleeping giant. It was like a religious experience watching everyone’s real gifts show up and introduce themselves to everyone in the room. Who needs church.

And it was here we opened the first page of The Rainforest to

And on the other hand, if I convey to my men my love for sailing on the sea- and each of them is so inclined because of an urge in his heart- then you will soon see them diversify according to their many particular abilities. This one will weave sails. This other will fell a tree with a flash of his axe. The other, still, will forge nails. And there will be someone somewhere who will observe the stars so as to learn how to helm.

However, in the end, all will be one. Creating the ship isn’t about weaving the sails, forging the nails, reading the stars, but rather imparting a taste for the sea, which is unifying. And in this light, there is no longer conflict, but in community there is love.”

Antoine de Saint- Exupery, Citadelle (1948)

As quoted from The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley, Victor W. Hwang & Greg Horowitt

And love did well up between all of us- all different kinds of love from all different kinds of skills, passions and experience- and together it all began to freely flow down the side of our shared mountain of creativity, trust & love.

And our rainforest began to emerge.

About Lisa Canning

“Vowels are to words what creativity is to the world~ basic and necessary.”

Lisa Canning is the founder of IAEOU, the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship (IAE) and Entrepreneur the Arts.

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