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Addicted to Change, the Stuff of Startups Who Can also Stuff it Up.
By Yeoh Siew Hoon - Web in Travel (WIT)
Monday, 28th March 2016
 

This is the longest stint I’ve not been travelling since I started WIT 12 years ago, two solid months on the ground " and it’s been wonderful, I feel like I’ve kinda settled into myself; 

Travel is not necessarily about movement, it can be mental. And my mind has certainly done a lot of travelling these last two months as I prepare for the months ahead.

Having said that, I can’t help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation getting on my first flight in two months this Sunday when I fly to Hong Kong to host our first WIT Hospitality conference there. I feel like a kid again, thinking of the airport, my seat, movies " I know, sad right?

In some ways, launching WIT Hospitality reminded me of the first days when we launched the first WIT conference at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront 12 years ago. It’s been as nerve-wracking and suspenseful " it’s a blank canvas and you never know what the final picture will look like.

And I wonder if this is what entrepreneurs need from time to time " that shot of adrenalin, that plunge into the unknown, that feeling of starting something new, the need to draw on a blank canvas " to reimagine.

A group of paratroopers in a free style free fall. Photo credit: istock

It’s an addictive feeling and I can understand how some can get hooked to this drug of entrepreneurship. I would certainly not call myself a serial entrepreneur " images of “Dexter” always come to my mind when people say that " but I know I do thrive on launching new stuff.

After you have started something and it’s running nicely, you do miss that charge and I do believe there are some people who are built to launch, those who are built to build and those who manage.

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