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Despite all of its recent popularity, entrepreneurship is not the typical path. When you decide to go it alone, there will always be people that will tell you you’re crazy, that you’ll fail and lose everything, and that you should just go and get a normal job and stop making things difficult for yourself and your family. Naturally, if you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you need to be able to block out this negative energy and push forward. However, somewhere along the way, the idea that you should block out the opinions of those who simply think entrepreneurship in general is too hard or too risky came to mean that you should block out any and all detractors, and that’s a belief that can be incredibly harmful to your company’s success.