The Sleep Trap: Do Sleep Problems Prompt Entrepreneurial Motives But Undermine Entrepreneurial Means?
探讨睡眠问题如何通过影响心理健康（如ADHD、抑郁）来增强创业动机，但同时削弱警觉性、创造力和社交能力等创业所需的关键能力。
The current symposium emphasizes that mental health conditions can influence a person’s entrepreneurial motives and means. This paper suggests that sleep plays an important role in both. With respect to entrepreneurial motives, I draw from sleep research to suggest that sleep problems may increase entrepreneurial motives by prompting many of the same behaviors as clinical ADHD, and by precipitating and/or mediating the effect of several mental health conditions, including depression. With respect to entrepreneurial means, however, I draw from the same research to suggest that sleep problems are likely to undermine several abilities important for the successful founding of an entrepreneurial venture (alertness, creativity, and social competence). Thus, despite facilitating the desire to become an entrepreneur, sleep problems may undermine an entrepreneur’s ability to thrive as an entrepreneur. Overall, the current paper explores the three-way relationship between sleep, mental health, and entrepreneurship, focusing on the important influence of sleep problems on entrepreneurial motives and means. The conclusions integrate existing research and pave the way for new research on the role of sleep in entrepreneurship.