TLDR:
- The biggest thing to become an entrepreneur from personal experiences is to have a great level of patience, discipline, risk tolerance, and most importantly, be stubborn. But if being stubborn is the only quality you have, then it’ll fall flat on your face before you even saw it coming.
Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone. Here’s how you find out
As you’ve probably seen us briefly mention in some of our articles, entrepreneurship isn’t something everyone can do. It isn’t something that comes innate to each person, you can’t literally force yourself to become one.
To become an entrepreneur, you must have a great level of patience, discipline, risk tolerance, and even be stubborn.
But if out of those 4 aforementioned qualities you’re only stubborn, then you need a reality check.
From my personal experience, if you happen to want to achieve something that’s in the entrepreneurial sector, then being stubborn is probably the number one underrated quality to have.
Though it is associated with a negative connotation, if you have the patience, discipline, and risk tolerance to go along with the vision you have in mind, if you’re nailing every other thing as well, then you will eventually reap the fruits of your labor.
Depending on your personal circumstances, the ability to be stubborn becomes even more pertinent, for if you can’t even run through external factors with stubbornness, then how can you expect to begin seeing results a month in?
However, there’s a breaking point to everything, especially stubbornness.
If you end up in a situation where it begins to affect your personal life, relationships, and things that may be a higher priority and you don’t even realize it, that isn’t entrepreneurship, that’s being plain stupid.
If you’re now struggling to maintain a healthy schedule and now consistently disregard other people in your life or academics if applicable as a result of pursuing this entrepreneurial endeavor, that isn’t what entrepreneurship looks like.
Entrepreneurship has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, and entrepreneurs who have vastly successful stories to share portray it as some magical wonderland where everything is as easy as pie, but the bitter truth is, like anything in life, it’s far from easy.
In theory, anyone can certainly become an entrepreneur, but not everyone should. There are just some qualities you must be able to develop if you don’t innately possess them that are essentially mandatory to begin traversing the entrepreneurial path.
But if you don’t have them, it’s perfectly okay. Instead, channel your energy towards things that you know come to you naturally and instinctively, double down on that instead, and perhaps niche those ideas to the max instead to restore your sanity.