Week 3 Reading Reflection

While reading Chapter 2: The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set in Individuals, the most surprising thing was found when reading The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship. This section focused on the failures and risk in entrepreneurship. I was fully aware of this, however, I did not understand the depth and power of these failures, nor had I known about the extensive research done on this. The most confusing section of this text was the entrepreneurial ethics in a conceptual framework. I understood the importance of these ethics, however, the in depth descriptions and importance confused me. If I could ask the author two questions, the first would be: Do you think that the grief of recovering process and dealing with the failure can, by itself, deter an entrepreneur from his work? The second question would be: Does unrealistic optimism ever benefit the entrepreneur (past the point of external optimism)? I also do not disagree with anything in this chapter, as all of the risks and characteristics seemed very accurate.