Crazy good: How mental illnesses help entrepreneurs thrive

By Matt McFarlandApril 29

(Courtesy  Michael A. Freeman)

Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues.
The clinical professor of psychology at UC-San Francisco’s medical school spent a decade at a company where his clients were the founders of businesses. He estimates that about a third of them seemed to have some type of mental health condition. He still notices the trend today in his work coaching executives.

Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue. They begun polling entrepreneurs and found a strong link between mental health conditions and entrepreneurship.

“The people that we admire for will entrepreneurs seem to come from the same gene pool as the people who are kind of socially stigmatized because of mental health conditions,” Freeman said. “They must confer some adaptive advantage otherwise they wouldn’t be so highly represented in the population.”

Forty-nine percent of entrepreneurs surveyed reported at least one mental health condition. Nearly a third reported having two or more mental health issues, such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety or substance use conditions. And half of the entrepreneurs who reported no mental-health conditions identified themselves as coming from families with a history of mental illness.

This may seem counterintuitive. Why would an unstable person be most attracted and suited to launch a business?

[Why shades of Asperger’s Syndrome are the secret to building a great tech company]
Freeman points out that there’s a beneficial side to these mental health conditions. Those weaknesses come with corresponding strengths that the average healthy person doesn’t have.

For all of its ills, depression also brings empathy and creativity. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi attempted suicide as teenagers. Uncommon levels of empathy can allow a businessman to better understand a customer’s need. And a creative mind won’t be satisfied on the corporate ladder, but instead in a fast-moving start-up where he or she can unfurl ideas and dreams.

Individuals with ADHD naturally make decisions faster, are comfortable working independently and are more creative, necessary skills at a start-up. They’re likely to be bored working for someone else.
Shades of bipolar disorder can come in handy for an entrepreneur.

“When someone truly has manic-depressive illness and they’re very disabled by it, they’re in and out of the hospital, if you look at their relatives, their siblings, their parents and their children, they are all high-achievers,” Freeman said. “And that’s been demonstrated over and over again.”

When I spoke with Freeman he drew a parallel between the benefit of having bipolar disorder in one’s gene pool and sickle cell. Having the sickle cell trait is helpful in the face of malaria, but having sickle-cell disease can be deadly.

“Evolution somehow concocted this scheme by which some people get the traits and it confers advantages,” Freeman said. “And a few people get the disease and they’re like genetic roadkill.”
For nations looking to aid entrepreneurs and encourage economic development, having a robust mental health system makes a lot of sense. After all, entrepreneurs are the ones creating new companies and new jobs.

Freeman’s findings can also be seen as an explanation for the innovative tradition of the United States, which has made it the world’s largest economy.

As an immigration nation the country is full of people with personality types inclined to take the risk of moving a long ways, and of seeking out a better life. Immigrants are more likely to start businesses. More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or children of immigrants.

The research has been submitted to a journal and is being reviewed. Freeman cautioned me that the findings are new and have not yet been replicated by other researchers. He wants to see more research in the space.

The research did find one exception to a mental health conditions being disproportionately present in entrepreneurs. There was almost no difference in rates of anxiety reported by entrepreneurs and the control group.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2015/04/29/crazy-good-how-mental-illnesses-help-entrepreneurs-thrive/?wpisrc=nl_tech&wpmm=1

Misogynists in Tech

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/10/a-high-ranking-obama-commerce-official-commuted-by-taxi-and-billed-the-government/?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-fedgov%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.1b26c12ba43d

Vikrum Aiyer liked to commute to his government job by taxi.

On at least 130 occasions over two years — the majority during a four-month stretch in 2016 — the then-chief of staff for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office called a taxi to pick him up near his home in the District. He was chauffeured across the Potomac River 10 miles or so to the agency’s headquarters in downtown Alexandria.

And then, according to a report released Tuesday by the inspector general for the Commerce Department and people familiar with the investigation, Aiyer billed the government for each ride.

To escape notice, Aiyer impersonated current and former high-level agency officials, writing their names on cab receipts and vouchers he submitted to the taxi company, which then billed the government, investigators found.

One of those officials was the Patent and Trademark Office’s then-communications director, whose supervisors eventually confronted him on his apparent taxi usage. In response, he noted that he regularly drove to work and his car was in the agency’s parking garage.

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Gurbaksh Chahal, a tech CEO who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges after striking his girlfriend 117 times, was fired by the board of directors of RadiumOne this weekend. Chahal was captured on video beating his girlfriend, yet managed to squeak away with a $500 fine and ZERO JAIL TIME. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/27/gurbaksh-chahal-fired-domestic-violence-radiumone_n_5222366.html

Indian-origin Gurbaksh Chahal beats girlfriend, fired from firm

http://www.rediff.com/money/report/indian-origin-tech-mogul-beats-girlfriend-fired-from-company/20140428.htm

WhatsApp CEO 'Deeply Sorry' For Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend In 1996

Jan Koum, the billionaire chief executive and co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, has apologized for behavior that led an ex-girlfriend to get a restraining order against him nearly 20 years ago.

According to the restraining order, which was made public for the first time by Bloomberg News on Monday, Koum stalked, harassed and physically assaulted an unnamed ex-girlfriend in California, forcing her to drop out of school.

Koum's official history now includes this darker chapter. According to the 1996 court documents (which you can read here), the Ukrainian-born entrepreneur followed his ex-girlfriend for a period of several months in 1995, verbally harassing her and even (on at least one occasion) physically assaulting her. Koum allegedly frightened her to the point that she would lock herself in the bathroom to hide from him. She also claimed she had to ask co-workers to walk her to car at the end of her shift, in case Koum was waiting for her.

The intimidation peaked in October 1995, when the victim was a student at Foothill Community College, according to the court order. “Jan Koum followed me through campus and physically harassed me,” the victim wrote in court documents. “I stopped going to school that day, and when I was dropping my classes, I found that Jan Koum had found my Social Security Number and ruined my records at the school.”

“I am physically, emotionally and mentally worn out because of him,” the victim wrote in the restraining order, which was filed in a California federal court in 1996 and which forbade Koum or his friends to go within 300 feet of the woman’s house or job.

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In 1996, a temporary restraining order was filed against me by a woman I dated after I arrived in the U.S. and had just completed my GED. I feel I was irrational and behaved badly after we broke up. I am ashamed of the way I acted, and ashamed that my behavior forced her to take legal action.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/whatsapp-jan-koum-assault-girlfriend-harassment-restraining-order-apology_n_6022294.html?utm_hp_ref=women-in-tech




Ajit Nazre, The Man Ellen Pao Accused Of Harassing Her, Has Disappeared And Left Behind A Giant Mess At Kleiner Perkins
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/kleiner-perkins-ajit-nazre-disappearance-2012-6#ixzz3YhwokjpH

Nazre lied to Pao about being divorced just to have a sexual relation with her. 
http://recode.net/2015/03/10/liveblog-day-two-of-ellen-pao-on-the-stand/

Ellen Pao said she filed her gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partly because of three female administrative assistants who had been discriminated against because of their gender — and only with Pao’s lawsuit and a meaningful settlement would the firm take women’s issues seriously.

In Pao’s eyes, these aggrieved admins, coupled with her colleague Trae Vassallo’s repeated sexual harassment by a partner (Ajit Nazre), showed a troubling pattern at the firm.

http://recode.net/2015/03/20/ellen-pao-and-the-case-of-the-mysterious-missing-admins/

Microsoft CEO Tells Women To Trust The System And Not Ask For Raises

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella caused a stir on Thursday when he told an audience of tech industry women they should trust they will get raises when they deserve them -- despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

"It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along," Nadella told a crowd at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, ReadWrite reported.

"That's good karma. It will come back," Nadella continued. "That's the kind of person that I want to trust, that I want to give more responsibility to."

Nadella backtracked on his comments after outraged reactions from women in the audience began appearing on Twitter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/microsoft-ceo-women-asking-raises_n_5962476.html?utm_hp_ref=women-in-tech

Males from Asia, and ghetto Asian males.
 

 

Everyone knows about these men, but few dare speak out against them, least of all the women who have been harmed. Those who do are swiftly admonished for questioning “the way things have always been” — or worse, confronted with physical retaliation and separated from their families. Death threats are not unusual.

Having grown up among the Hmong in St. Paul, it was in the early 2000s that Sia Her began noticing adolescent girls on the arms of Hmong American men who were 20, 30, sometimes even 40 years their senior. She saw these couples walking around in the community’s market places, where DVDs containing suggestive photos of young Hmong women are sold by the thousands. Though she heard through the grapevine that many of these young wives suffered abuse, Her said, they rarely spoke openly about their experiences.

Now, one Hmong woman is refusing to stay quiet about her allegations. In an unprecedented federal lawsuit first reported by the Star Tribune, Panyia Vang, 22, is seeking $450,000 from the American citizen who allegedly raped and impregnated her before binding her to a traditional Hmong marriage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/28/the-open-secret-of-abused-hmong-child-brides-goes-public-in-minnesota-law-suit/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_2_na

In short, these ghetto Asian males from America, went over to their homeland in Asia, tricking innocent teenage girls in their homeland to their hotel room, raped them repeat for days end, then let them go.  These are the same people I worked with in the Silicon Valley/Tech/USPTO, and they are protected by the Silicon Valley/Tech/USPTO, which the USPTO is backed by the US government. 

Couldn't afford meat or McDonald

since childhood has it advantages.

My EEOC case

EEOCcase.blogspot.com

Looks like people are beginning to see what is going on

People are now seeing the defamations against me, but people with issues (racism, sexism, bigotry, hatreds, oppression of women, psychologically unstable, jealousy, covetous, envious, avaricious, etc) are still using these defamations against me.