The Entrepreneurship Scale

This is my invention. I believe that most people fall somewhere on an entrepreneurship scale of 0-10. At zero are people who are in the E quadrant (have a job) and are so thankful and so happy about it that they can’t thank their stars enough. They are so elated about it, they want to just enjoy the feeling and the money. They think they have arrived. 

At 10 are people who are “pure entrepreneurs” - the ones who have built enterprises and empires like Dhirubhai Ambanis and JRD Tatas and Jeff Bezos’s of the world and the countless others whose names we have not yet heard but they had the guts to believe in “all or none” - they are willing to go out on a limb and risk it all and don’t have fear of landing on the road if it doesn’t work. They have the guts to borrow money, wager on a new idea which might or might not work, quit their jobs and follow their heart. 

Both these people are very happy in their life - the zeros and the tens. They both are following their hearts and passionate about what they are doing. The problem is with the 4s and the 5s and 6s which is essentially people like me. Who are frustrated to no end with working for someone and not having a vision that they can pursue. Who cannot see themselves doing that for the rest of their lives, running the rat race, 9-9 for 40 years. At the same time who don’t have the guts to leave the security of their profession to pursue something different. Who don’t have an original idea that they can own and be passionate about or even stand up for and prove. They live a life of quiet desperation. Reading every article out there and watching every movie on entrepreneurship and every story about someone who is pursuing their dreams and wondering when they will be able to do something like that. When they will be able to break free from the rut of traffic and status reports and boredom and politics. That’s where I was.