It's great to be passionate but it's also important to be detached about things you can't control.
This is fantastic advice, and one of the main things I tried to drill into my team (when I had one), with fairly mixed success. It's very hard to convince people who are attached to a project that they should at any point just go "meh, what can you do?" but sometimes that really is your only option. Advice for any startups in this situation - if you really have to impose some awful condition on your workers, make sure you explain it fully to them. It's easier to accept something you don't like being imposed on you if you understand it, even though you don't agree with the reasoning.
Another really tricky fine line is, having done this a couple of times, to then stop people going "meh, screw it" when they really can control the outcome, but just don't feel like it for whatever reason.
This is fantastic advice, and one of the main things I tried to drill into my team (when I had one), with fairly mixed success. It's very hard to convince people who are attached to a project that they should at any point just go "meh, what can you do?" but sometimes that really is your only option. Advice for any startups in this situation - if you really have to impose some awful condition on your workers, make sure you explain it fully to them. It's easier to accept something you don't like being imposed on you if you understand it, even though you don't agree with the reasoning.
Another really tricky fine line is, having done this a couple of times, to then stop people going "meh, screw it" when they really can control the outcome, but just don't feel like it for whatever reason.