It could also be a personality type. Most Entrepreneurs are eager to take risks. Some have ADHD/Dyslexia and many others just have the personality. Doesn't have to mean Bipolar Disorder.
Edited BPD to Bipolar
Edited BPD to Bipolar
BPD:
- Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined emotional abandonment.
- Unstable and chaotic interpersonal relationships, often characterized by a pattern of alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation, also known as 'splitting'.
- Inappropriate, intense anger that can be difficult to control.
- Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
The first two are incredibly common with BPD and really are the defining characteristics.
That's a romantic myth of the public imagination.
The most successful ones avoid risk as much as possible.