In 1957 Bill Marriott was a 25-year-old former navy officer urging his entrepreneur father to give him a shot at revitalizing the family’s first hotel, outside Washington D.C.

In the competitive tech industry where your work is never truly complete, it seems it has become socially awkward to leave work at a time which used to be the standard. Are those working „9 to 5” being judged by their coworkers as they head out to spend time to enjoy life? Whatever happened to „work life balance”?

Consider who comes to mind when we think of entrepreneurs. Does a day go by without mention of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Richard Branson in the media? While admirable, these men are not accessible, especially to women.

While the business world can be a hostile place, it doesn’t often throw up situations where you’ll literally find yourself with an arrow to your throat.

Scientifically, can happiness be an advantage?