How Do HSP Traits Influence Entrepreneurial Success?
Larry Easto
I Help Self-Employed Professionals Market & Grow Their Service Businesses | Marketing Coach | Author of 30+ Books & Online Video Courses | Sharing Practical Strategies for Authentic Business Growth |
For most of my career, my biographical information has focused on my educational qualifications and work experience.
If potential clients wanted to hire me as a lawyer, consultant or coach, they needed and deserved the reassurance that I had the requisite professional competence and experience to help them with whatever issue they faced.
Although aware that I was a highly sensitive person, that was more of a nice to know kind of thing, much like my INFP Myers-Briggs indicator—interesting, but for business purposes, totally irrelevant.
Late last year, I was invited to participate in the Hyperfocus to Hustle Summit the overall purpose of which was to empower neurodivergent entrepreneurs.? By way of clarification, the term neurodivergent includes such subcategories as ADHD, dyslexia, autism, and highly sensitive person.
As honored as I was to be invited to participate in this event, I was curious about what role, if any, being HSP played in my business life.
My hope was that by taking a deeper dive into the HSP concept and then comparing these findings to my career activities, I would gain a better understanding of why I do things the way I do.
Happily, my expectations were greatly exceeded. My video presentation turned out much better than I could have ever hoped or imagined.? But that’s the good news.
The bad news is that yesterday the Hyperfocus to Hustle Summit was cancelled.
What was I to do with my presentation?
Instead of simply archiving the content and moving on to other matters, I chose to make the content as widely available as possible.
My intention in doing so, is to share some of the intriguing new ideas about being a Highly Sensitive person and HSP attributes that that arose from creating this content.
My hope is that viewers will find the content as interesting and potentially useful as I did while developing the presentation.
So with that introduction, here is the presentation.
If you are one of the 20-30% of the population that is HSP, what do you think?