I had to read about entrepreneurs causing entrepreneurship a few times. The concept is easy to understand, though reminiscent of the chicken-egg argument, but I thought the writing was a bit convoluted—the description of entrepreneurship being the interaction of the skills of entrepreneurs was wordy. I also needed to study the typology of entrepreneurial styles a second time to understand the relationships between level of personal financial risk and level of profit motive and the corresponding entrepreneur type profiles.
If entrepreneurs are formed through the experience of
creating ventures, does that mean one is not an entrepreneur until after their
first venture creation? I think in writing this I may have answered my question
because the entrepreneur mindset may exist before a venture is created, but the
entrepreneur does not exist until after that experience.
I liked the inclusion of stress and coping with stress, as
stress is an omnipresent hurdle. I don’t have a lot of questions about the
reading; I found it all very straightforward. The dark side of entrepreneurship
is familiar to me. So perhaps the biggest surprise was finally accepting that I
am a Type A personality. I have been
told I have a Type A personality, and passively agreed (how Type B of me), but never looked into what that may mean.
Want to know more about your personality type? Try this explanation by Changing Minds. I also enjoyed this article by Lindsay Kolowich about A/B personality types and work environments.
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