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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?
All entrepreneurs begin with three categories of means
- 1. Who they are–their traits, tastes,and abilities;
- 2. What they know–their education, training, expertise, and experience
- 3. Whom they know–their social and professional networks.
Saras Sarasvathy in “What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial.“
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
It seems safe to say there are more undergrads who want to be novelists and whose parents want them to be doctors than who want to be doctors and whose parents want them to be novelists. The kids think their parents are "materialistic." Not necessarily. All parents tend to be more conservative for their kids than they would for themselves, simply... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional... See more
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional... See more