Can you learn how to be an entrepreneur? You can, but whoever has the entrepreneurial gene will find it easier. Yesterday, I was with one of those inventing types who has been inventing things and ways of earning money since he was 8 years old. He explained how he made an agreement to replace the gifts in those gift egg dispensers that kids like so much. He used his bus ride to school to do so.
In the U.S.A., people talk a lot about the great businessmen who started before they were ten years old delivering newspapers. There are people who allow themselves to be carried and others who free themselves from the limits placed on them by their environment from the very beginning. Of course you can enterprise when you are 50 or older, but there are those to whom inventing has been like learning to swim and for them it is most natural. They always go afloat on their own and if one thing doesn’t work, they try another and move forward.
It is an early use of the imagination and -more importantly- of the tenacity to do things that the majority consider “impossible,” beginning with their own parents. There are two basic typologies, those who are convinced that they will never go hungry and dedicate themselves to whatever occurs to them, forgetting about formal education in general, and those, more cautious, who are convinced that in today’s world a good education is essential given the complexity of the society of the twenty-first century. The second are true diamonds in the launching of new companies.
What do you think?
Translated by Babelic.com
