DE BLOG 1
I have never really thought of myself as an “entrepreneurial” person. Although my grandfather and my father are entrepreneurs, preferring to work for themselves rather than for anyone else, I have always been very content at the idea of being part of a larger organization, and making my contributions there.
However, AIM, and in particular the subject DE, is making me think. Who is an entrepreneur really? Isn’t an entrepreneur just someone with a dream, a vision, with the only difference between him and a non-entrepreneur being the fact that he actually takes action towards achieving his dream? Following from that- do we not all have dreams, or conversely, does not being an entrepreneur make you someone with no dreams?
I believe that all of us, in life, have a number of dreams, particularly when we are young and the future seems to be an expanse of endless possibilities and opportunities. As we grow older, we get set in out ways, many times taking the easy path, without really introspecting about what we really want to do in life. It’s not practical, we tell ourselves, or, it’s too risky.
And so we follow our dreams in a different way, the smaller dreams, forgetting the grand visions of our youth.
My challenge for myself over the course of this blog and this subject is to delve within and rediscover that “grand vision”.
Our professor has, I believe, given us a roadmap to do just that. What do we really like to do, we need to ask ourselves, with others or by ourselves, for or through others or for ourselves.
Having done this, perhaps we can find the pieces of the jigsaw that make up our dreams.
