The human mind has always been attracted towards unpredictability. Life becomes mundane when you know everything about your future. A sane person loving to earn a fix monthly salary through employment may sustain the predictability of the routine job, but a true entrepreneur loves to make his life unpredictable even to the extent of not knowing what will happen tomorrow.
The human race has a normal tendency to get carried away with the flow. E.g. a child has a tendency to become a criminal when it is grown in a company of criminals. Similarly a student while planning his future gets influenced by what his classmates are planning. If the trend is to work hard to get placed in a good company and earn a fat salary every month; the human mind which by this time has got used to think with the flow; hardly try to find other ways of shaping the future. That’s why people always raise eyebrows when someone chooses entrepreneurship over placements.
What could be the reasons behind someone opting for entrepreneurship? How the entrepreneurs are different from others? What are the qualities of their personalities which are responsible for their choice of unknown, unpredictable way of entrepreneurship over the regular safe way of placement?
There can be many answers to these questions. Let me mention some of them which are very close to me.
One of the reasons that the entrepreneurs don’t want to follow the trend is that they feel so common doing so. Either they are not common or they don’t want to be common. In either case they wont follow the trend.
Another way to look at it is the fact that you struggle a lot to achieve something. But when you actually get it, the importance of the thing you were struggling so hard to get gets lost. So cracking a competitive exam is the most important goal of your life at some stage, but when you crack it you ask yourself, ‘fine you cracked it. What next?’ When you are a student of a top B-school, its not at all challenging to get placed in a good company. Everyone in your class would be getting placed. So what is challenging?
The answer is entrepreneurship.
There is a phrase in hindi – ‘Khudko aajmana’ – to test yourself, your abilities. When you get placed in a company everything is already planned for your there. Sure, there are some challenges in any job, but a system is there to help you, to guide you, to support you. But in entrepreneurship you have do everything from scratch. Entrepreneurship is more challenging especially when you don’t have anything except your brain to start with. So the entrepreneurship here becomes a question: do you have a potential to generate a successful business from nothing?
Sometimes down the line everybody asks this question to himself: what have you achieved in your life? A successful entrepreneur looking at the business he has generated, the employees earning salaries from his business and the satisfaction on the face of his customers will say, ‘I may not build my own army and concur lands, but I can become a king of an empire where people earn their living with satisfaction and which helps to bring a positive change in the lives of many people.’
