Notes on: Entrepreneurial Love

'Entrepreneurial Love' is taken from the course, 'Managing Happiness,' by Arthur Brooks on edX.org.

Love is central to happiness, and fear is the opposite of love. In order to minimize fear, we need to build up courage, and the only way to build courage is to live through tough experiences and survive.

Trying to stay safe does not help us conquer our fears and is really bad for experiencing love.

Entrepreneurs are usually business people who own their own companies or have developed their own products, but from a psychological perspective anyone who views their life as a start-up are true entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs acknowledge that there are always risks involved, but look at things rationally with a plan to manage them. Too much safety is what is truly risky, and so we should strive to take risks in areas that matter to us the most, like when it comes to love.

Entrepreneurial love is a love that risks with the heart: it acknowledges the risks of failure, like rejection or disappointment, but also the benefits of success, like a less fearful life full of more happiness.

When we offer our love and it is reciprocated, we thrive, when it's not, we survive and grow. Either way, it is a risk worth taking.