Inspired by the one ore two lectures I had about entrepreneurship, it made me write this article about whether the entrepreneurship could be learned and practiced in terms of characteristics. it should be undoubtedly accepted that even though these entrepreneurial characteristic or traits can be common, the composition to which this characteristics are there in entrepreneurs is totally different. For an example warren buffet is one of its kinds and that’s warren buffet, can’t ever become a Richard Branson because the tool or the force which is called mind has radiant differences from person to person. This is also the essential element explained in Buddhism as chittha. Buddha explains the “life as a state of living mind” If I were to explain this in laymen terms it is said that living is a temporary state where this mind, or so called force stays and have contacts with the external environment then consequently create karma (Sachethanica Karma) as a result of attachment (alma/Upadanaya) Which results in Bhava (or reincarnation) this happens as a cycle which is explained by lord Buddha as sansaric cycle. Each element helps the creation of each other as a result of interconnectivity and interdepdency. So life explained is the state of mind which prevails within the human during prathisandi chitthaya (the state of mind at birth) and chuthi chitthaya (consciousness or state of mind at death) so how could this be identical in two individuals is my question? Because no matter what you learn it is your state of mind that leads you to action. I raise the question if your consciousness say never do this would you do that and regret? Or say if your consciousness says you do this, whether you will actually do that and satisfy yourself is my question? This also may be different from person to person.
If the person is working out of his consciousness he will do that what consciousness prompt them despite all other learned factors. Say if you are known that risk taking is a high entrepreneurial skill and you wants to become an entrepreneur but your attitude is risk averse and because of that your consciousness prompt you don’t do this will you end up taking the risk or not? This also depends on person to person as I wanted to say if the person is having a low consciousness, he will take the learned or modified behavior which is developed in this birth, through learning and then think, or risk taking is entrepreneurial skill I should have it. And against what your consciousness prompt you will end up taking the risk. And one person may be the total opposite of this. Which is, he will take the risk if only the consciousness prompt him to take the risk? Which is the effective entrepreneurial skill or risk taking? Or I could raise it like who is the more powerful man is it the one who has the risk taking from birth (consciousness prompt him) or is it the learned risk taker (who is actually risk averse in nature but modified his behavior against consciousness to take the risk) undoubtedly it is the person who is backed by his consciousness to take the risk is very effective.
The difference is, when modified behavior is to take risk, it is always having the fear of taking the risk inside because he took it against consciousness. And the one who is backed by the consciousness will take the risk without fear. Which is very effective. (Therefore, I set aside the argument that risk taking which is inborn according to karmic force or any other divine conditioning cannot be learned)
State of mind undoubtedly is changing every moment and which is also different from person to person there is no powerful force than mind that which modify or condition a person’s behavior. And that is why NLP, Sleep Ignotist Tests and hypnotize play a massive role in psychiatric solutions today. This is to say if the major determinant of forming behavior is mind can you change the orientation of mind which is highly individualistic and different from person to person. Unless otherwise supported by highly sophisticated NLP and hypnotize systems. But undoubtedly those things also have limitations too. That is why there are still psychologically disordered people in mental hospitals in today’s context. So this orientation towards risk taking, creative thinking which is conditioned by the mind could it be learned or conditioned here in this earth? Also give a deep thought even if it is programmed on mind to modify the behavior, with the impermanent nature of the mind will the programmed person will remain a successful entrepreneur throughout his time with all entrepreneurial skills is my question?
If you take creative thinking is there any sequence to do that. Ok.. Say you take an average person and give him guidance; you can think it in this way. Will the person could use the same sequence that the other person use and come out with an exceptionally brilliant idea or identical to the other? The answer is no. (According to me) two people independently want think alike. (Exactly the same even without minor differences) This again is conditioned by factors such as experience, aesthetic thinking, values, 6th sense, and many others which I cannot completely put on terms) so will this be same from person to person? My answer is No…
You can’t say entrepreneurs think like this, so you think like an entrepreneur, if you want to become an one. Again because capacity of thinking, ability of thinking is highly a personal matter which is determinant on minds free will nothing else. This reminds me of the statement what my father always repeats “you can educate a fool but you can’t ever make him intelligent”. So if state of mind could not be acquired and generalized from person to person how can you inculcate the characteristic of one person in to another? Even if you do how long will it exist? and in what ways will it work. Which is also the problem of modern science in cloning effects? You can’t limit persons mind set because it travels freely. “Duran gaman ecacharan, asariran guhasaran” by lord Buddha. Even though modern science could create another Albeit Einstein in to this world they don’t know how his mind will work? Whether he will contribute to the society in a constructive way of thinking like the original Einstein? or whether it could contribute to the society in a destructive way? This is unanswerable. Because science has its limits of discovery.
Lord Buddha in his karmic explanations explained these talents, skills, and characteristics in a very logical way. These are all the practices of the sansaric circle. You can always start practicing a new thing in this life but then again you can’t expect it to be effective in this life it self. (Because even though every action has an reaction the responsiveness to action can be given at any stage immediately, next birth or in every upcoming birth). If you keep practicing the entrepreneurship there may be an extent you could improve (according to karma niyama) explained in Buddhism. but you can’t ever become a successful entrepreneur without your inborn entrepreneurial characteristics, because you are conditioned to be it before birth. Greatest musicians, authors, dictators, kings, and even entrepreneurs are born. If you don’t have the entrepreneurial skills may be you could improve but it has it own limitations if you don’t have it by birth. And neither will you succeed, without having those characteristics by birth. because of the fear inside you in trusting an inculcated characteristic which is conditioned after birth. With fear how can you ever be an entrepreneur? Nor you can take the fear out from you, because you fear trusting your learned skill which is very natural to humans and which is justifiable. Every living creature in this world is bound to fear and phobias. If you don’t have one fear or one phobia then you probably might have another. Risk taking cannot be inculcated as long as you have fear inside to trust your learned or modified behavior. Even if you don’t have the fear there should be something inside which would prompt you to take risk which is unexplainable and highly subjective which is bestowed by karmic forces or by god himself for every entrepreneur, musician, artist.
You learn art, you learn music you learn entrepreneur but can every one emerge as a Richard Branson by learning. If so then everybody would do an entrepreneur module at a university to become an entrepreneur. If everybody can learn break dance and dance the way that Michael Jackson does everybody will become exactly the same worth of the said person. Wont we?
If I can learn to sing, and I could sing like amaradeva wouldn’t I love to be an amradeva? This can not be learned or acquired. Even if we do there are always limitations. If you don’t have the talent of drawing arts, can you learn and interpret it in your own terms like an artist even with deliberate practice? ok with deliberate and continuous practice you ll draw the art very well with fine lines and exactly the same colors like Pablo Picasso but then would you be able to interpret it in your own artistic manner? If you learn how to play the guitar and practice it deliberately would you ever be able to create fantastic melodies except for the practiced songs. If the talent is not gifted?
Everything in this material world is conditioned before birth. Almost everything. Even mothers love. Moments that we spend and what we ought to be is conditioned, except for fewer exceptions of (niyama dharma) but even these exceptions have its limitation. Buddha himself states that your karma is coming after you like a wheel in a cart throughout your sansaric cycle and it has its own results for you according to your deeds no one can not accept it unless attained nirvana. According to Christianity and Hinduism the lord
I strongly believe people should always learn and think of things in their own personal way. And that is why learning is required. But if you don’t have these aforementioned guptha (invicible, conditioned before birth) factors supporting you there are no way that you can effectively learn the talents, characteristics and skills which are inborn. In Oliver twist Charles Dickennes describe the innate goodness of a boy who lived in gutters. (Being a European writer he realizes sometimes even the goodness is conditioned before birth) This is conditioned before his birth by genes, karmic force or by the destiny writer god himself. There are people who try hard to achieve these skills characteristics and at the end of the day realize that man always has limitations to achievements. may be by becoming frustrated. Which we use to call “unrealistic” (when we can’t achieve them). There is no harm struggling or trying to learn skills, adopt characteristics by learning or anything. But always keep in your mind it has limitations if you are not born with those, and please don’t be unhappy with it. Because no body is perfect in everything. As algiyavanna mukavatete says “loven ekek ek deyakata vey samatha” This is acceptable for every human being with 5 senses. Rarely in cases are those people who do two things together, at a perfect level having either 6th sense or the 7th eye. Example- Leonardo dicaprio, mother theressa, lord buddha. Again some exceptions to normal conditioned living. They are conditioned to this world differently for those particular tasks. Jesus Christ to eliminate sins of people. Lord Buddha to enlighten people etc. therefore it should be identified ( there is always one thing which you can do in your best identify that and work for that, which you are conditioned before birth , or I could say the purpose of why god sends you to this world, or the model that you are because of karmic forces).it should also be noteworthy that we are trying to become artists, entrepreneurs and musicians by acquiring characteristics of them through learning, merely for a conditional living, but then how many of us attempt to acquire the characteristic of a pure human which makes all of these. All these characteristics are human characteristics in nature. If you are a proper human by karmic forces or by gods order wont you have most of the skills? People skills, conceptual skills, intellectual skills, and most of all nature will love you, opportunity will love you, and god will love you and everything around. So why don’t we learn to become a proper human first, in order to become an excellent entrepreneur.
I conclude by saying entrepreneurship cannot be learned and put in practice unless you are born with it. But nothing is worth in life than trying. “So even without purpose try”. Because we dint have such specified purpose of reaching the moon. Nevertheless, we reached it and discovered. With all these unfortunately till now we have arguments whether Nil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin reached it or was a mere deception of
You don’t know the real experience of death unless you go through it… so do entrepreneurship. If you love it become one of them and see. Try, fail, Get up, go, achieve but if you can’t take the risk and you are fearing why should we take it? I could say you are not an entrepreneur in born if your attitude is this. And if its there can you ever be an entrepreneur while working against your consciousness? Even if you be, will you be emerged as a successful entrepreneur? My father always says if you are afraid of yakhas don’t build your home in cemetery of course exactly the place he was bought up in balapitiya. Therefore, I say if you don’t have entrepreneurship inside there is limitations of inculcating it within you an emerging as an effective entrepreneur. I open the option of learning entrepreneurship for the benefit of people who wants to learn. But practically there are always limitations to what you can learn and do. Unless you are born with it.
This article does not resemble any criticism for the subject or the module. But an contribution to the school of thought of great persons theory, depending on my personal experience, thinking and opinion. And a critical thinking with a philosophical view point.
Thanking You-
Swadesh Randika De Silva.
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