Friday 22 June 2007

Happy, Self-deceptive Entrepreneurs?

Andrew Wright writes about the difficulty of making realistic risk assessment.

It's the same feature as in Christopher S. Putnam's article , just placed in a business setting. Andrew points to a British survey that suggests that enterpreneurs are more prone to overly optimistic thinking than people on average.

Sooo... If happy delusions are necessary to avoid depression, and enterpreneurs are more optimistic than people on average, then entepreneurs should also be happier than people on average. Right?

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