There are more examples I could share, but these particular items have been brewing in my head for the past week. I'd be interested to hear yours.
Like anything else in life, there is both good and bad to being an entrepreneur. The key is going in with your eyes wide open and fully prepared.
REALITY CHECK 3.0
For more pedestrian small businesses, if you will, owners on a daily basis must balance huge workloads with family matters, cash flow constraints, employee issues, not so flashy business ideas and models...all while pursuing new business and managing operations. FYI, just because this is the case does not make your business any less important than that of the likes of Tatto.
While so-called experts like to refer to Entrepreneurship 3.0 as the true blend of lifestyle and business, the reality is that has always been the case. You live and breathe your start up. It becomes woven into the fabric of your life.
THE BOTTOM LINE 3.0
At the very least, entrepreneurship gives you a chance to divine your own destiny. It provides the means to pursue a passion or a different lifestyle. You can redefine who you are. And whether you succeed or not is in both your and fate's hands, not someone else's. At best you succeed to the point you have gained control over your destiny and no longer have to worry about money from month to month. You create a new paradigm in your own existence. And perhaps along the way you manage to make others' lives better in the process.