
My Relentless Ambition Cost Me My Health. Here's How to Avoid Making My Mistakes.
Karan Khemani
created: May 23, 2025, noon | updated: May 24, 2025, 12:56 p.m.
Building a startup places extraordinary emotional and psychological demands on your body — demands that a jog won't erase.
Add to that the pressure of scaling and debugging, and I had unknowingly built a storm inside my nervous system.
Over the next three years, I prioritized physical rigor to balance my nervous system.
It's more likely that your nervous system is the culprit.
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