Week 3 Reading Reflection

Week 3 Reading Reflection

The part of the reading that stood out most me was the stress and phycological tolls that being an entrepreneur and starting your own business can have. While one does gain freedom they also put so much up for risk. I found it interesting to think that someone can become so involved with their business that they neglect other aspects of their life.

One part of the reading I found somewhat confusing was the ways the author talks about relieving stress as an entrepreneur. While things such as exercising and finding joys outside of your company make sense to me as ways to relieve stress, something such as networking seems to me as another stress of the job.

If I was able to ask the author two questions, I would like to ask if it is possible to take what he considers the "self destructive characteristics" of an entrepreneur and use them as a positive. Another question I'd like to ask would be to find out which of the risks he feels drives an entrepreneur more than the others.

Finally I really didn't feel as if there was anything within this reading that I would disagree with.