Founders get mentally stuck reusing old ideas after burnout
A founder who shut down their first business describes feeling unable to think beyond variations of what they already built, even after a deliberate break. A reply suggests forcing exposure to an unrelated domain breaks the loop, but no systematic method is described.
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