Entrepreneurship is full of tensions. I call this The Innovator’s Duality: - naively optimistic YET product realist - visionary AND incremental - focused YET ambitious - passionate YET measured - cares about customers AND ignores detractors What else?
These are true (mutatis mutandis) for all ambitious projects. Here's another: Confident enough to take on hard problems and yet modest about the solution you have so far.
