Not everyone in your life needs to understand the path you chose. And that doesn’t make them wrong. It doesn’t make you right. It simply means you’re building toward different outcomes. Entrepreneurship asks you to make decisions that may look strange to someone who values predictability and security above everything else. You might invest when they would save. Take a calculated risk when they would choose certainty. Spend years building something before the results are obvious. Work intensely during certain seasons—and deliberately recover during others. So be careful about measuring your decisions against the expectations of people who aren’t trying to build what you’re building. Their advice may be perfectly reasonable… for their path. That doesn’t automatically make it right for yours. Find people who understand the journey. People who can challenge you when you’re wrong without asking you to abandon the vision simply because it’s difficult. And most importantly, lea...