Table of Contents:

Part I: Running to a Standstill
1: When Suicide Seems Like a Good Option
2: Stepping Back from the Edge 29
3: How External Events Trigger Negative Feelings
4: Obstacles and Frustrations

Part II: Understanding Our Psychology
5: Building Our Psychological Quotient
6: Ethics
7: Do the Right Thing
8: Ego – The Emperor and the Slave
9: Working with Your Ego
10: The Hidden Land of Desires and Motivations
11: Logos and the Mind
12: Pathos: Belief Systems
13: Putting It All Together

Part III: Reassembling the Furniture
14: Toward Building a Healthy Ego
15: Psychotherapy: An Imperfect History of an Impossible Profession
16: Fearing Our Own Selves … and Other Mental Blocks
17: Stages of Therapy
18: Challenges and Pitfalls in Therapy
19: Medicating Our Way to Recovery

Part IV: These Rituals Worked for Us
20: A Soul Made Cheerful
21: Prescription 1 – An Organized Diminution of Work
22: Prescription 2 – Get Out of Your Head
23: Prescription 3 – Feeling, Not Thinking
24: Prescription 4 – Spirit over Mind
25: Prescription 5 – A Promise to Yourself
26: The Elements of a Good Life

This book addresses the fundamentals of understanding our own inner workings and explores practical ways of overcoming our inner hurdles. Filled with simple, yet concrete strategies, lessons and insights, founders and business leaders can work with stress, anxiety, and other mental challenges presented by the life of an entrepreneur. In this book, readers will learn to: Understand the basics of founder psychology, and how our inner workings can help or hurt us, The importance of building a healthy ego, leading to resilience, Draw on the lessons of established startup leaders on how to wrestle with their own mental and emotional challenges. Written for founders, entrepreneurs and Chief Executive Officers, The Resilient Founder leads a gentle path to self-awareness, compassionate soul-care and inner wellbeing. Entrepreneur, Investor, and author Brad Feld calls this book "dynamite". Case studies, philosophical perspectives and a generous dose of poetry is sprinkled across this book, which can be a companion for all those misfits, rebels and the crazy ones. For all those perpetually hitched on the roller coaster ride of entrepreneurial journey, this book is first of a kind to delve into the dark side and present a balanced approach to building your inner core as you build your company. This is no quick-fix guide, and we are perpetual work-in-progress. Today is Day One. Let us start the journey.