
Michael A. Freeman
Psychiatrist, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, and founder of Econa who researches entrepreneur mental health; co-author of "Are Entrepreneurs Touched With Fire?"
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Sep 22, 2026
Why Are Entrepreneurs More Vulnerable to Mental Health Problems? with Michael A. Freeman | Episode #264
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5:39Claudia GarbertHOST
So what are those traits and what are the mental health conditions that entrepreneurs are just more vulnerable

Michael A. FreemanGUEST
And Entrepreneurs are just more dopaminergic in general than our managers and job holders.

Michael A. FreemanGUEST
Dopamine is associated with motivation, reward, novelty seeking, goal engagement, opportunity recognition, enthusiasm, excitement, leadership, pleasure.

Michael A. FreemanGUEST
Those traits include things like openness to experience, and creativity, and innovativeness, and the ability to improvise, motivation, opportunity recognition, goal engagement, enthusiasm, excitement, dominance behavior, leadership, thoroughness, hard work, industriousness, um, persistence.

Michael A. FreemanGUEST
And, and there's more, but you get the general concept that these personality traits in general are all pretty good traits to have if you're going to be an entrepreneur.
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