Last week, I shared (see here) that I was curious about how entrepreneurs learn to work. My thesis is that many don’t know how to work, and the ones who do are self-taught out of necessity. In the last few days, I’ve talked to a few entrepreneurs and asked these point-blank questions:

• How do you decide what to work on each day?
• What did your last workday look like?
• What did your last workweek look like?  
• How did you learn how to work as a founder?

The first three questions are to understand how they work. The last question is the most important one.

I’ve done only a handful of these sessions, but so far, the answer is that they learned over time by piecing together what people shared with them. Also, the forcing function was stress and anxiety, which made them realize that how they were working was a big problem.

It’s early days, and I’m curious. I’ll have more of these conversations with entrepreneurs. This might be an overlooked problem that many entrepreneurs face.