Eh, Personally, I think passion is overrated. It's like a marriage; How you deal with the fights, the bad times has a lot more to do with your long-term succe

Eh, Personally, I think passion is overrated. It's like a marriage; How you deal with the fights, the bad times has a lot more to do with your long-term success than how hot the relationship is in the beginning. While I agree that any given person is likely to work harder for themselves than for others, I know some entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs because they hope to work less hard. I know during the three or four years I bled into my company, I certainly worked harder than most people, and way harder than I'd consider working for someone else. but right now? I'm probably putting in closer to 20 hours than 40 hours a week. (part of that is just that it's been a long time that I couldn't relax, and now I can spend more time at the gym and stuff, but part of that is that I am an intrinsically lazy person.) The thing is, for the vast majority of us, there is a maximum amount of work we can productively do in a given timespan; You can temporarily exceed that, but you will become less productive in the coming weeks. (granted, I'm only ramen profitable right now, so maybe I shouldn't be speaking yet.)