Seriously Business - Entrepreneur, Business, and Inventions Blog

The 17^th century philosopher John Locke spoke of the “tabula rasa” - the blank slate onto which experiences are etched, subsequently affecting our ideas, sensations and characteristics. There were, he said, no innate ideas stamped upon the mind from birth. A budding entrepreneur might construe this as a sign that Locke was suggesting, by extension, that a man must become successful in business through training, application and experience rather than through an innate drive - but can we say that this is true?

A recent survey by the US’s Northeastern University, in Massachussetts, tends to fly in the face of this. Studying the responses of over 200 entrepreneurs from across the Atlantic, it gleaned that a majority (62 per cent) believed they were born with the desire and ambition to found their own businesses - suggesting that nature may be more valuable than nurture when it comes to realising one’s goals. …continue reading the story
called Entrepreneurism - Nature Or Nurture?