Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned?
We think so. But how? As coaches and university lecturers, we deeply believe that entrepreneurship can be learned, or more accurately - relearned. We're all born with entrepreneurial capacity, which starts with curiosity and the desire to experiment. Unfortunately for most of us, as we grow older we're conditioned to stop thinking in this way, both because the way that we're educated and because of what we constantly hear from seemingly more experienced people. Some of us are given opportunities to exercise our entrepreneurial muscles from a young age, while others are not. We start the episode by discussing the three main skills and aptitudes that make a successful entrepreneur - persistence, ability to evaluate risk, and adaptability - providing stories and examples of how entrepreneurs that we know have been able to learn and apply these skills themselves. This is what we've observed from interviewing and working with hundreds of entrepreneurs, both successful and not. We close the show with suggestions of what you can start doing to learn these entrepreneurial skills right now, and what's worked for us in our journey. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
