Week 3 Reading Reflection

The biggest surprise for me in this reading was how honest the author was with describing some of the downsides of trying to be an entrepreneur. He went past the basic possibility of failure, and described some of the psychological tolls failure can have. He went on to describe how those psychological tolls could present themselves in entrepreneurs. A source of confusion for me were some of the descriptions of the sources of research on entrepreneurs. I didn't understand how proceedings of conferences and some other sources were actually sources of research. They seemed like records of activities entrepreneurs engage in. Some of the activities are ones that other business people could engage it, not strictly entrepreneurs. Two questions I would ask the author would be 1. Did he personally experience any psychological tolls in his experience of entrepreneurship and 2. What source of research has he found most helpful in writing the textbook. For this particular chapter, I don't know enough about the topic to agree or disagree with the author. I would only question the validity of some of the sources of research the author provided.