Newton’s first law of motion talks about an important concept called “inertia”, a term quite forgotten in the daily race of our lives. Inertia is the unwillingness of a body to change the state of its motion. As kids, off course, we had also read the examples of a moving bus coming to a halt or turning around a corner. But this is not about another science lesson from the childhood days but just a thought as to how entrepreneurship has related one of its most important concepts to it.
One of the things most people admire most about entrepreneurs is their willingness and ability to dare. Their willingness and sheer energy to do something which is different from others. It is the passion for something that makes them shed of their skin of inertia and complacency and act and do what they wish to on the professional front. They choose not the path that most of their friends and contemporaries take. Instead, they make their own path. In simple words, entrepreneurs dare. They dare to sometimes go against the expectations many have from them. They dare to start a venture despite the fact that risk is inherent in business. Returns, too like the risk is fluctuating. In addition, they are required to put in their own capital and even if it is funded by venture capitalists, it is needed to be paid back.
It is this daring spirit that makes them believe in their dream. Everybody has a dream about something they might have wanted to do in life. Everybody also has a spark of entrepreneurship in them. But it is the very few who take the risk and take that step towards making that realty. It is all on dependent on how big a risk are you ready to take? Are you ready to lose it all and yet start off new and not lose hope? Are you willing to sacrifice for your dream and perhaps lose some of the comforts in your life?
Entrepreneurship is not necessarily about hardships and losing everything but it’s not about wining the game every time either. It’s not just about the free spirit but also about the passion for the dream you hold. We often get so used to doing something in our life that that important idea takes a back seat. We get busy with our jobs and then we forget that little childhood venture we treasured. We keep trying to win a race against the rest of the world, against our next door neighbor, against a competing firm but we forget the race we are running with ourselves and by letting go our that spark of entrepreneurship, we become the hare in the race.
One might feel that by means of this article, employees are made to feel like unimportant entities. That however, is not the case. Employees are the backbone of the system and an entrepreneur would be quite incomplete without them. If everyone was to follow the path of entrepreneurship and become daring one fine day, how indeed would the economy run? It would in effect return to the barter system we left back in the pages of history.
But it still holds true that many in our society have forgotten what it is to risk and have fun. The enjoyment and happiness one receives at the end of succeeding in something that involves extreme risk is incomparable. It is perhaps precisely this very reason that we need to shed off our skin and “go have some fun”. It’s what links us to that little entrepreneur who lives within us.