Being independent doesn't mean be a loner.

The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook.

I know, sounds like a page turner doesn't it?
Well it's required reading, so back off.....
Regardless there were a few points that stuck in the brain, as much as the eating effects of carbs has to increasing my pant size.
There was alot of negative "poo-poos" to the first few pages of the book. In a sum, if you think entrepreneurship is simply an idea and pile of cash to bathe in, then think again!
What?!
Not even a flip of the page and already your dreams are destroyed?
The key word, is passion. Entrepreneur's need passion.
Within the first chapter of the honorable "Guidebook" called Entrepreneurship, by Reggie Aggarwal and Mark Esposito. The two go onto say:

For example, entrepreneurs always have passion. Entrepreneurs live and breathe their business enterprises. They are zealots about their business models and are evangelical about their products or services. They have to be. If they weren't, the stress and financial pressures of running a fledgling business would completely wipe them out. The sheer magnitude of the odds that are stacked against entrepreneurs requires a special kind of irrational exuberance to overcome. Entrepreneurs have unshakable confidence in and enthusiasm for their business ventures that contagiously spreads to their business team.

Breath business?
Personally I find that a bit toxic to breath in. Nonetheless it is a good ideal to take in. Why commit to something you have no desire in? After all if you have no passion in something you're trying to put out toward the public, then how can the public ever truly be passionate about it either?
The example presented is something that is rather bluntly put out. To the point.
It makes perfect sense, that with lack of passion means lack of control, which means increase in stress and a failing business. Passion is key.
While knowing that to succeed in entrepreneurship is almost as rare as becoming a successful writer, actor, singer....and making it seem all the more impossible, passion is key, and with a striving passion there is a possibility.