Nuclear Powered Individual

This is a person who like nuclear energy just keeps going on its on steam without any external impetus. A nuclear reaction does need an external trigger, similarly an entrepreneur may derive motivation from external sources but once you start you keep going on and on. We grow up in a world used to carrot and stick motivation – parents use it on children, teachers on students, then corporations and managers on workers. In this world these nuclear powered individuals will stand out driven by insane desires to make a difference, change the world or sometime practically just to create enormous wealth.

This is not an original phrase. I remember reading it in an interview of some manager whose name I don’t remember around 10-12 years ago. Let’s just attribute it to the unknown manager.

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  1. [...] a feeling that you have infinite buffer and the sense of urgency may get lost. But if you are a nuclear powered individual this can make things really easy. As a bootstrapper you will have enough worries and not thinking [...]

  2. Maximus said

    I would like to see a continuation of the topic

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