I'd be genuinely curious if your response to the same impending hardship makes a difference in the outcome.
Like, does KNOWING about suffering make it easier to go through it?
Also, being able to anticipate the hardship in concrete terms also allows you to get in front of it and mitigate the adverse effects. You make fewer mistakes, so less of the hardship is self-inflicted.
Entrepreneurship is very difficult even in the best of circumstances, but it is also a skill and experience makes the job significantly easier.
It took 5 years to ski, especially the first 3 years were a painful process.
(on avg. 1 week per year)
Not sure how much this resembles entrepreneurship.
Some setbacks may hurt my confidence in my first startup journey. Now I would just drink a cup of coffee and keep working.