How has hurt our entrepreneurial spirit
The message is as appealing to the public, because it is the ardent desire of every human being to his own life. We want to be extraordinary in an ordinary world.
However, few succeed. Why?
The appeasement of our entrepreneurial spirit is one of the main causes.
Human beings are by nature entrepreneurial. Just look around us to see how man has changed the face of the earth. All thanks to the restless curiosity that is characteristic of human beings.
Some call it creativity, others prefer the term “browser” or “innovative.” Whatever name you want to, is the most amazing inner strength that human beings possess.
Entrepreneurship is intrinsic to the Human Being
The entrepreneurial spirit is so innate in the human being should be chained together to curb it.
It is something to observe the behavior of a baby. As has the power to move independently, either crawling or walking, begins an important mission to explore their surroundings.
Then comes the tiresome “age of why”, which want to know everything. Throughout his childhood, children show a remarkable inquisitive nature that should never lose.
However, many of them do not develop their full potential. As they proceed on their way through traditional education, entrepreneurial spirit to even off subsides during adolescence, a stage which every girl should be brimming with ideas and plans for their future.
After years of encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit in our children and see this phenomenon limiting parallel in many young people, I can not think of a bonsai.
According to Wikipedia, Bonsai is the art of growing trees and plants, reducing its size by techniques such as pruning, wiring, pinching, etc.., And modeling the way to create a style that reminds us of a nature scene .
It basically consists of complicated techniques of mutilation of both roots and the rest of a tree again with the aim of producing a beautiful miniature tree for decoration.
In the case of trees, the result is beautiful. Lets have an old oak tree as a centerpiece.
However, in our children the Bonsai phenomenon is ominous.
Due to the methodology used in most of the traditional educational establishments, entrepreneurship children’s innate is slowly subsided to the point of disappearing altogether in some of them.
The three key ingredients of Entrepreneurial Education
The problem lies in the methodology. Every method of education that aims to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in children, have to deal with these three key ingredients based on:
• You must respect the individuality of each child
• It should encourage the love of learning
• Be guided by good mentors who teach in a personalized
In college classrooms these three ingredients are conspicuous by their absence.
It is difficult for a teacher, however good, can respect the individuality of each child in a meaningful way if you are in charge of a course of 30 or more students.
The same applies for individualized instruction. In a classroom context, it is much easier for teachers treat their students as a whole must acquire certain skills and knowledge taught by the education ministry.
The love of learning runs a similar fate. For a child to enjoy learning, be inspired and not pressed.
The methodology of formal education rarely inspires his students. Rather pressure to force them to learn. The teacher teaches the subject and students learn to follow your instructions.
According to Oliver Van de Mille, author of “A Thomas Jefferson Education”, the result of years and years under this system known as “front” are the following attitudes in students:
• If I do the minimum required, I’ll be fine.
• Learning means doing what the authority figure demands
• Learning is boring and unattractive
• The fun is when you have to learn
• To be a good student I have to study the interests of another person
• If I am forced to learn, I prefer to entertain
• My interests are not important, I have to pursue in my spare time.
(Van de Mille, Oliver: “A Thomas Jefferson Education.” George Wyeth College Press, USA, 2006. P. 42-43)
For something Albert Einstein said, “I never let my education interfere with my education.”
“Parents can counterbalance these negative effects of traditional education on their children’s attitudes.”
The responsibility to shape the character of an entrepreneur in their children falls on parents. They can supplement the education of their children with the necessary elements to develop their entrepreneurial skills.
Some things parents can do to encourage an entrepreneurial mindset in their children:
• Respect the individuality of their children
• Inspire learning to love
• Take care that they have real mentors in their lives
• Let them have their own time to dispose of it.
• Give money and teach them to manage it wisely
• Let them make mistakes.
• Create a real context in which to exploit their talents
• Give them responsibilities
• Tell them your problems and admit their mistakes
• Help them closer to God
• Create a sense of civil responsibility
• Play games with them teaching financial
• Read biographies of great entrepreneurs together to inspire
• Teach them to be generous
• Help them discover and foster their strengths, not weaknesses
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Even an adult who has lost their entrepreneurial spirit, you can return to “light a fire” inside. If you harbor a dream in his heart – a business, social work or a mission you want to complete in your life – I encourage you to rekindle the fire to regain its entrepreneurial spirit forces that should never have lost.
• Read books that promote an entrepreneurial mindset
• Study biographies of great entrepreneurs
• Get a vision for your life
• Make a plan for medium and short term to achieve its vision.
• Find a good mentor who can help on the way
• It is also important to surround yourself with people who have an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Get started today and regain their entrepreneurial spirit.
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