April 14, 2010 at 12:47am - EntrepreneurshipI was having a conversation during lunch about entrepreneurship, and we both agreed that parents can potentially be the single most damaging factor when it comes to your dreams and ambitions.
The issue is that many parents tend to be highly traditional in their philosophy towards life. I know mine are. In other words, they take the beaten path because it's been tested and proven to work. When you stray off course, they want you to go back on it and do what they do. It's just a very restrained and rise-adverse outlook.
But in the world of entrepreneurship, there's absolutely zero room for timidness. You
have to go off course in order to explore a new idea. It's just the way it is. You have to be willing to spend tons of time working on something that you have no idea whether or not it's going to work. But you do it anyways because that's what you really believe in. Everything else is secondary. I swear I could write a hundred blog entries related to just the starting stage of entrepreneurship, but I'd rather just direct you once again to
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanfard commencement speech.
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