Post by GlocalizedHR on Oct 20, 2015 16:50:05 GMT
Are you that Entrepreneur Assassin?
Every successful entrepreneur has a secret of being successful in their fields. They don’t have a magic wand that they use to be great in what they do, they just look at the world little differently and the possibilities of clicking the opportunities in diverse situations. That happens only because they have the curiosity of finding new ways to succeed and ask themselves the questions of what, how, why, when, who, where.
But this is not something that everyone is good at and that’s why not everyone becomes a great entrepreneur, even some do stand and fall, because they lack these basics. Have you ever wondered why? why do they fail to ask themselves these questions before making the important decisions. There is one big factor that makes you an Entrepreneur and actually a successful one, and that’s the parenting that these individuals have gone through in their young ages.
Stop asking so many questions!
You must have noticed, that kids do ask lot of questions however, due to our own other agendas and surrounding stress, we sometimes tend to ask our kids to stop asking. We do it without realising the fact that it might create a perception in our kids that asking questions might not be a good thing to do and they should not ask what’s rising up in their heads. Which actually might be killing their inquisitive nature.
Stopping your kids from asking questions has a lazarus effect on their ability to look into matter deeply. It starts from home, leads to school where they again don’t ask to clear their doubts that they have regarding any topic, leading to not speaking up even at the workplace, making them just a mediocre employee without leadership skills. Hence, they develop this personality of not asking questions to themselves of what they are doing and why they are doing the way they are doing.
It would be too dangerous!
As parents it’s a human tendency to be extra-caring for the kids. That sometimes lead us to kill that risk taking capabilities of our kids. As a child every kid is curious to know, learn and do lot of things that looks different or exciting. Since they are unaware of linked danger to it, they go ahead and try it, however, as a caring parent and knowing the possible danger linked to it, parents stop them from taking those risks.
“There is no bigger risk in life, than living a life without taking any risks”
This slow and gradual feed of staying away from the risk, kills that yet another required skill of Risk Taking for being a successful entrepreneur.This actually reminds me of a quote from an animated movie “Croods” where the father tells his family “Never not to be afraid”, whatever is unknown is dangerous.
There is nothing like Tomorrow Land!
Each success story that you read or hear about successful entrepreneurs will always tell you how they have looked into the future and used the resources of today to make their dreams come true and bring the change to the society. For a normal routine life, you would call someone like this a day dreamer and may make fun of him.
That’s an issue that we all are raised with, from the very childhood we are forced to put a block on our creative thinking instead of taming and riding it to the right direction. As a child, many kids have their imaginative friends and talk to them and play with them. It feels childish, funny, stupid and creepy at times, but we forget that other than being kiddish and creepy, it also shows that they have imaginative and creative mind.
“Tomorrow is a place with more suns in the sky then you can count, a place not like today or yesterday, a place where things are better” - Guy, The Croods
As parents, many or rather most of the parents force their kids to live a routine life as they have lived and what they have done as they grew up. But we forget that we are stopping our kids to look into the future and pushing them to live in today that is more based on yesterday.
I believe all humans are born with the Entrepreneurial skills and to be bosses of our own, only if we were raised like ones. It’s just that when we see others grow and see them doing and succeeding in what we never tried because we were told not to, we realise that what we missed and what we never tried. So please wake that sleeping entrepreneur in you, let him be creative, dive into the future, ask questions “Why not?” and take risks to bring that future to life today. I would like to end this article with a beautiful line I heard in a song, that has actually shook me up to wake up an entrepreneur sleeping inside me
“If you never try, you’ll never know” - Coldplay