Neuroscience is revealing the difference between a sovereign
creator and an automaton Borg as brain specialization towards “exploration” vs.
routine tasks. Entrepreneurs are “wired differently” from the rest of us. A
research team of neuroscientists and business-school scholars from Italy and
Switzerland found that when entrepreneurs sought out novel courses of action,
they were more likely than managers to use the “right side” of the prefrontal cortex,
which is associated with creativity. While the managers tended to use only the
“left side,” which is related to logical thinking.
Entrepreneurs might approach the problem differently because
they are “hard-wired” to use creativity, for they have the gene for
self-transcendence. That is they are naturally driven to explore
and to discover, through a thrust of curiosity that leads them to boldly
go where no one has gone before.
Genetic predispositions that make some people more likely
than others to seek novelty also affect their odds of being in business for
themselves. Molecular geneticists found that a version of one of the genes that
governs the level of dopamine in the brain, and which is associated with the
tendency to search out novelty, was more common among entrepreneurs than
non-entrepreneurs. Those entrepreneurs with higher testosterone levels, (or
being exposed to higher testosterone levels when in utero) had faster growing
firms and were more tolerant of risk than those with lower base testosterone
levels.
Due to prefrontal lobe integration entrepreneurs have
increased interiorization. This then leads to greater autonomy, freedom or
positive deviance. The more we go within, the more we go beyond identification
with lower and partial centrisms, and the greater our capacity autonomous
decision making and original thought. Through mature ego development,
self-actualization and differentiation self-centeredness or narcissism is
reduced. This makes the entrepreneur a natural leader, unlikely to fall into
wasteful, entropic power games.
The entrepreneur is the closest thing we have to a hero in
the modern age, thus they engage the hero’s journey in their daily lives. The
hero-entrepreneur has the courage and audacity to spin something from
nothing…bringing greater value to themselves and society. Creatives are
instigators and see solutions and opportunities where others see problems, and
so they are not victimized by setbacks and obstacles. While
unhappy people often feel victimized by others
and their circumstances and conditions. Depression is the stalling of the
hero’s journey and a collapse of the self-wheel through identification with the
victim/slave self rather than the entrepreneurial sovereign self. I think the
greatest lie is that we are of no importance except as an economic unit and for
the security and power of others.
Powerful dopamine ignition of the prefrontal
lobes and strong engagement of the more creative right brain mean that the
entrepreneur is more likely to be happy, positive and energized than the
follower, worker bee type. In order to establish the self-facilitated drive of
the liberated dopamine circuits we must acknowledge and negotiate our weakness,
blindspots, shadow and denial and expand our sense of identity into resilience
and positive affirmation knowing that whatever obstacles in our way will reveal
their own solution. The entrepreneur is therefore someone who quits the
bullshit, and gets out of their own way, and doesn’t let others stand in their
way. That is the entrepreneur is a self-transcendent
Hero!
To achieve the ultimate goal of
the mystic-visionary level in our lifetime, we have to study sovereignty, and
so we have to look into the behavioral neurochemistry of self-efficacy and
creativity. If you look for the highest vibration in human thought, there you
will find people working on sovereignty. Through study and practice the % of
time we inhabit the crippled, golem-slave victim state is less and less,
through being mindful of where one is residing energetically. It takes a high
degree of honesty and commitment to get out of one's own way. If we don't
champion ourselves we are like a void or a blackhole on God's stage. Having to
reject the reality of our own existence in order to accommodate other people’s
animal and egoic needs is a surefire recipe for an impossible, convoluted and
unsatisfying life. Therefore we must step up to the plate and actively direct
our conversations, our social networks and our lives—that takes getting real
with who we are and who we are not, and expressing our truth.
“Novelty-seeking is one of the traits that keeps you
healthy and happy and fosters personality growth as you age.” C. Robert Cloninger
Those with the happiest temperament and character score high
in novelty-seeking and risk-taking, as well in persistence and
“self-transcendence.” If neophilia is combined with adventurousness, curiosity,
persistence and a sense that it’s not all about us, then you get the kind of
creativity that benefits society as a whole. The love of novelty or “neophilia”
has always been the quintessential human survival skill ensuring positive
adaptation to changing conditions and allowing for the exploration of new
resources. Dopamine-charged neophiliacs left Africa 70,000 years ago to
adventure to the furtherest reaches of the earth and adapted to nearly every
habitat possible. Neophilia is in the genes. The
Hero-Entrepreneur takes on the world with curiosity, passion, empathy,
innovation and gratitude, sees problems as opportunities and gets out of their
own way.
Any day that is your day is a
day in the progress of the Universe!
