Emotional Regulation is Critical for Entrepreneurship

Learn to recognize and transform your emotions

Perhaps the most controversial assertion in the popular 2018 text The Courage to be Disliked is that “emotions are fabricated to help us reach our goals.”

Most people experience emotions automatically. As far as they’re concerned, emotions just come up in response to things, and they can’t help it.

Japanese authors Kishimi and Koga disagree. According to their presentation of Adlerian psychology, emotions are learned responses to our environment that help us achieve our goals. (And often, our goal is to manipulate other’s behavior so they will conform to our expectations of them or give us what we want).

There might be something important in their theory for entrepreneurial Founders, given that the billionaire venture capitalist who founded Netscape and helped launch other groundbreaking web-based firms, Marc Andreessen, recommended the book in a July 2018 tweet.