My startup is broken
There&#x27;s a couple of things going on here.<p>Schools in the US and perhaps elsewhere DO NOT TEACH STUDENTS about how to handle failure states and anxiety.  It is the biggest blind spot the US has and it is biting us in the butt.  A big part of the culture is about perfectionism (perhaps rooted in religion - perhaps rooted in kids TV shows - sports culture) - and that needs to be replaced with &quot;blameless continual improvement&quot;.<p>The best performers are those that divorce failure states from emotions and anxiety.<p>XYZ isn&#x27;t finished yet - no you&#x27;re not done.... that&#x27;s TOTALLY ok. Every homework assignment starts off with a grade of F - you work on it to get to a C, B, or A.  A startup&#x27;s work is never done, there really is no success state, and that&#x27;s OK too.  You&#x27;re helping to make the product better, you&#x27;re delivering features to customers.  Your making the task pipeline faster with your automation tools.  Things suck - but you&#x27;re making life easier for everyone tomorrow.<p>The reason why things are so bad now, is because before, things were worse.  Its a much more positive way of looking at things for me.  Yeah, things can improve, but we&#x27;ve done a lot to make things better.<p>Also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;astronaut-chris-hadfield-in-space-there-is-no-problem-so-bad-you-cant-make-it-worse-2014-3?op=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;astronaut-chris-hadfield-in-...</a> - there is no problem so bad that you can&#x27;t make it worse.  The best thing you can do is separate your emotions from the situation because they degrade your executive functions.<p>I disagree with the &quot;quit your bellyaching&quot; sort of conclusions.  It gives off a very <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wowthanksimcured" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wowthanksimcured</a> vibe.