Are You Born an Entrepreneur?

The need for security determines how much we will risk in our lives and what we will risk.

It’s partly the reptilian brain, partly genetic, and partly environmental.

Millions of years of evolution have stamped a need to be secure in our brains.

Scientists say half our personality is located in the neurons of our brain in heredity. Half our personality and future behavior is our environment. And half of that half might be determined by what we experience the first two years of living with our parents. The brain remembers almost everything we heard and records our reaction to it.

Do we get the impression that having a paycheck is good and we will die without it? Or do we get the impression that being independent and not having to work 9 to 5 gives us the opportunity to make unlimited amount of money? Do we need the praise of an authority figure and the security that someone at the top is guiding the ship? Or do we want to handle our own self esteem and want to be the person guiding the ship?

Do we want to get praise and promotions for doing good work in a secure environment? Or do we want to earn our own earmarks of success by the praise of our peers, competitors, and what we can do or purchase?

What are our thoughts about not having income? If we work for a paycheck, we need another job. If we are entrepreneurs we need another idea or we will have to get a job.

Is being an entrepreneur the need to prove ourselves? Does the person with a job feel more secure about blending in?

Does the entrepreneur in the early years of life pick up  feelings from parents that they are non conformers, they tend to take the path less trodden?  Do the parents have any anti-establisment feelings or its me against the world and I will win?  Or are the entreprenurial parents more competitive with a stronger need to win than paycheck parents?

The entreprenurial streak can be present in someone working for a company. The entrepreneur has the need to take his department or division to the top. Once again the entrepreneur might feel the competitive need to prove his or herself against clear measures such as revenue goals and market share. The entrepreneur in working for a company might seek jobs of responsibility where failure to achieve success might mean demotion or firing. So in a business environment the entrepreneur is still likely to take the more risky position to achieve and risk everything he would as if he were on his own.

CEOs are certainly this type of personality. They have ascended in a corporate structure learning the principles and the mechanizations of running a large enterprise and now they enjoy the position of taking on other enterprises. Has the CEO developed the security of working in a corporate structure and now wants to take on more risk by shouldering more responsibility? He still gets a paycheck and if he operates in responsible manner he is likely to continue getting one until retirement. Or now does he need more?

In  the underpinning of entrepreneur is the key the willingness to  risk everything or the unwillingness to have others determine the limits of his authority or just great faith that he can get it done better than anyone?

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