[stingraycharles]

I concur. It’s so stressful when the clock starts ticking: suddenly you are racing against time, which may cause a certain kind of desperation, which makes you make poor choices.

Most of the things the poster is doing, like figuring out “what type of business do I want to start?”, are absolutely things you must find out before you quit your job.

I would even go further and say that one should already validate the business idea before quitting. Once you figure out what you want, you can perhaps start slowly scaling down work (I know working 4 days a week is very common in .nl) and use the extra day to validate the business.

All in all, I’d say that following the advice mentioned in the article is not good for starting entrepreneurs.