It doesn't - it's just considered more polite. Similar to how the plural form "you" became established over the original "thou/thee/thyself" or to the way that people use the polite/'royal' "We" instead of "I" in a formal paper to point out something that the author did, or argued for, etc. Indeed, there's probably some common mechanism underlying these polite forms in English, as their similarity clearly suggests. (Perhaps an effort at purposeful simplification in the grammar, as the English language has turned into more of a widely-used standard, in Britain at first and then internationally?)
I've had this specific problem and solved it with Dr Sarno's book. It changed my life. I was able to create a startup (that I longed to do..) and I've never been happier.
Jeff, I run the largest peer to peer for tech startups CEO's in Toronto @ the Ryerson building. I'm happy to have coffee with you if interested since I imagine there is more context here that is missing (don't like just giving advice until learning more....) email is latif@roadmunk.com.
A special note to those energetic founders: don't go after a small market. That will certainly cut your chances in half or more. I've seen in many times (and for myself). Yes, I A/B tested the 'energetic founder' YC claim myself.
Show you want to go after something big. And if you switch after (you most likely will), no problem. You still meet all the big players and accomplish your goal (which will be impossible to uncover).
> other cars don't generally spontaneously combust
They do. Check out YouTube, or the anecdotes in the other comments here. I'll throw in another -- one of my neighbors' cars spontaneously caught fire sitting in his driveway after midnight. The fire department had to come put it out, along with the front of his house it started to set fire to.
Car drove by my house way back when, smoking rather alarmingly. Stopped a few dozen meters further on, fire from under the hood, firefighters dropping by to extinguish it. Adventures in one's youth. No clue what caused it; probably a short circuit, and given how there's oil and gasoline everywhere, it kinda keeps going.
Sigh... The study is focused on teens and people in their young 20's - only 82 of them. How could that be enough data given that demographic has already been largely influenced these social networks while growing up? I'd be curious to see this study done on older more mature people.
