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MPA 103 - The Future Entrepreneur | Reflective Essay

   

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If I remember correctly, I was only 10 years old when I realised that I am born to be anentrepreneur. My father asked me what I would like to have on my 10th birth anniversary. I guesshe was expecting an answer like a video game or a toy, but I proved him completely wrong.Instead, I asked for a business game. That was the time when my parents also recognised that Ihave an inclination towards entrepreneurship. I asked for the game not because I wanted tobecome an entrepreneur, but had an interest in playing business games. Inadvertently, I wasactually getting trained in entrepreneurship. This resembles to the childhood experience of SteveJobs. He started delivering newspapers only to buy a video game, but did not realise that it wasactually grooming him for entrepreneurship [ CITATION Rac16 \l 1033 ]. This is because Jobs learntthe way to keep customers happy and deal with various personality types as he was passionateabout his job, irrespective of its nature. Passion is one of the most important personality aspectsof an entrepreneur [ CITATION Pri13 \l 1033 ]. As per the research conducted by Tony Tjan,Richard Harrington and Tsun-Yan Hsieh, 65% of the entrepreneurs were found driven by their“heart”. Tjan further added that most entrepreneurs have “unshakable sense of purpose”. Thisjustifies the fact that passion is an integral personality trait of entrepreneurs. In my childhood, I was not very strong in communication. I often used to face difficulties inspeaking grammatically correct sentences. Although my friends used to bully me for this, I neverthought of quitting. Every time I used to ask my teacher to rectify me so that I can apply mylearning in the future course of action. In this way I learned to speak confidently. This pointtowards ‘resilience’, which is a strong entrepreneurial personality trait. It was said by SirWinston Churchill (British politician) that, “Success is the ability to go from one failure toanother with no loss of enthusiasm.” As an entrepreneur, failure is very common. However, theway an individual deal with the failure is what makes him/her a successful entrepreneur. Forexample, first automobile venture of Henry Ford went bankrupt, Steve Jobs was discarded fromhis own company in 1985 and Jack Dorsey was forced to leave his own organisation in 2008.Instead of loosing enthusiasm, they learnt from their failure and brought revolution byintroducing Ford Motor, Virgin, Apple and Twitter respectively. This justifies the statement ofWang (2008) that, continuous learning is an important entrepreneurial behaviour.I have always been very particular about my strengths and weaknesses based on which I still setgoals to meet with specific deadlines. I believe planning ahead and knowing own strengths and2
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