A while back, I set out to answer a question that had been bothering me: what do genuinely successful entrepreneurs actually have in common? Not the surface stuff — not "hard work" or "vision" or any of the words that show up on a motivational poster. The actual, underlying thing. So I did what an NLP modeller does. I found people who were operating at a level I wanted to understand, and I interviewed them — not about their businesses, but about their minds. I asked them to t