If your answer is “yes,” my next question is, “why?”
I admire people who run their own businesses, even while I think they are a little daft for taking on that kind of risk. Every thing falls on you. You don’t sell enough lawn furniture, bowls of chili, fancy-beady pillows, then you don’t eat or pay your rent or put gas in your car.
Plus there’s that whole budgeting thing, which I can barely manage and that’s with (thus far) a steady paycheck.
But if you read “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies,” you know that author Jared Diamond places great emphasis on the role played by environment in shaping one’s entrepreneurial spirit (or not).
This essay explores social entrepreneurship. I don’t know. I thought it was interesting.
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leftover // July 5, 2009 at 11:53 pm |
It is an interesting article.
I wonder if Mr. Diamond addresses differing attitudes toward success in different social environments.
I wonder if he applies a western idea of success to the societies he examined or if he allows for or defines differing definitions of success.
I agree resources and opportunity are huge factors. As is support.
datingjesus // July 6, 2009 at 6:11 am |
I read the book when it came out, and in my memory, he was pretty even-handed about defining success. I mean, a home in the Catskills wasn’t the be-all, end-all, you know? (Though why I picked the Catskills is beyond me.)
leftover // July 6, 2009 at 7:32 am
You know, I’m thinking this book may have passed my way as well. The guy in the photo looks really familiar and reading again the essay, it just sounds familiar.