Week 3 Reading Reflection

1. I was very surprised that there was a dark side to entrepreneurship. I know that there are always failures and setbacks, but I never really looked at it as the dark side of the spectrum. The author did a great job on explaining what this dark side is. You don't really realize how much the risks you take are going to affect you in the long run. And pretty much all business decisions have their risks. So this section of the chapter really made me see that we have to take care of our businesses, but also ourselves. Think out every decision carefully, so you know all of the risks before its too late and you can't come back from the decisions you make. 
2. The one thing that confused me in this chapter was the table that shows the correlation in the risk taking activities entrepreneurs make (page 38). It was hard for me to read and correlate all of the activities with the motives and such. I kept having to go back to the definitions and see how they related to one another and it made things more complicated for me. It was easier to read that section in the book, than to understand that table. But I'm also not much of a visual learner, so that's probably why.
3. Why was tolerance for ambiguity included in the table of characteristics of an entrepreneur? It just doesn't really make sense to me why an entrepreneur would have to tolerate indecisiveness. I would also ask do all entrepreneurs really have an overbearing need for control? It just seems like a little bit of an exaggeration to me, so I would like to ask the author about that section in the book.
4. Is having a high energy level necessary to be an entrepreneur? They can always just hire someone to do the work for them.. I can see why it would be a good characteristic to have but I don't think it's completely necessary. I also don't agree that eating healthy and sleeping well go into being an entrepreneur. Most of them actually barely eat or sleep because they're so busy.