Are startups necessarily stressful or freedom limiting? That's an interesting question. In my model of human psychology, when a person is passionately driven

Are startups necessarily stressful or freedom limiting? That's an interesting question. In my model of human psychology, when a person is passionately driven to achieve an ambitious goal, he gets stressed out about obstacles that stand in the way. Does passion necessarily cause stress? I think so, but if you know a way to have passion without stress, please let me know. As for being freedom-limiting, startups take a lot of time, and you generally have cofounders, investors, employees, and (hopefully) users relying on you. These external factors are big responsibilities. Does responsibility necessarily limit freedom? I think so, but I would be interested in counterexamples. Thus, if you want to avoid stress and limits on freedom, you would have to avoid passion and responsibility. I suppose you could start something not very ambitious, that you aren't very passionate about, avoiding cofounders, investors, employees, and users. I would have a hard time calling such an endeavor a "startup".