Males, Females and Entrepreneurs
If there's one characteristic, among others, that I've found to be very common among entrepreneurs, it is the ability to internalize pain. Forgive me if that's not exactly how to say it, but you will hardly find a true entrepreneur who does not keep his deepest business pains to himself, and tries to deal with them alone. Indeed the momentary silence of entrepreneurs is not unconnected with a pain they are dealing with. And there are many moments of silence in the life of a business person. The pains could be self-imposed as a result of silly business risks or calculations that didn't quite work out, outright business failure or externally imposed like a sudden change in government policy (like those banning Okada and Keke overnight), environmental challenge or staff "wahala"(or should I say "nothing-concern-me" posture to work), etc. The shoulder of the business person (especially in our clime), is almost always heavy. People hear the succ