>'Follow your dreams'...'Do what you love and the money will follow'...'Nothing ventured, nothing gained' these are phrases that all sound great from the other

>'Follow your dreams'...'Do what you love and the money will follow'...'Nothing ventured, nothing gained' these are phrases that all sound great from the other side of success, but when you have a normal life with a family and a mortgage, the decision to pursue your opportunities is not as cut and dried. I agree with your point but I don't think that "taking entrepreneurial risks" is the emphasis of the author. Instead, her theme seems to be more similar to these soundbites: - he talks a big game but doesn't follow through with anything - he has grandiose ideas but doesn't take any action - he's stuck on "analysis paralysis" Those ideas can be applied to other goals besides business execution. Goals like programming an ambitious open-source Facebook clone, learning ten foreign languages, climbing Mt Everest, etc.