The Myth That Almost Stopped Me From Starting My Practice
How I - a first-generation immigrant lawyer - discovered business success is a practice, not a gift
The entrepreneurship myth that almost stopped me:
"You're either born with business instincts or you're not."
In 2017, I was a first-generation immigrant lawyer paralyzed by the prospect of starting my own business.
Zero sales experience.
No business mentors.
Just the crushing weight of expectations and the fear that I lacked some mystical entrepreneurial gene.
This myth was shattered after I read this insight from Peter Drucker’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art.
It's a practice of actions and behavior that can be learned and systematically applied over time.
This reframing is at the heart of everything I try to build today.
This includes committing to Drucker’s belief that entrepreneurs are always searching for opportunities to exploit change; a belief that is fundamental to my own efforts to start a business.
So if you're sitting on a business idea because you "don't have business instincts", know that the instincts you're looking for can be developed through practice.
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I (and so many others) are proof of that.