Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs Have Lives

Re:Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs ... by karamazov on Sunday September 30, 2012 @02:36PM (#4593616)

If you weight companies by their market value, rather than a binary successful vs. unsuccessful[1] outcome, you'll come to a different conclusion. This is just a rationalization to avoid working hard.

[1] What's a "successful" company, by the standards of this and similar article? I don't want to inform my decisions with a study that considers Dropbox, on the one hand, and any sustainable small business, on the other, to be equally successful. There'll always be more of the latter.

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Re:Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs ... by chill1 on Sunday September 30, 2012 @02:45PM (#4593652)

Seems to me that you don't fully understand the point of this article. The author is suggesting that taking some time for yourself personally will make you more productive, not less. Pushing yourself to the breaking point just so you can say that you worked as hard as you could is a losing strategy. Let's not look to give ourselves a convenient excuse for when things don't work out. Instead, let's try to make it work out :)

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