As I’m typing on my laptop, I hear a coworker say this to me.
Without knowing anything before I started working at Walmart, it’s funny how she made that genuine comment.
What she doesn’t know is that throughout my time in college, I tried to be an entrepreneur by surrounding myself with other entrepreneurs and having access to all the mentors and resources I could’ve asked for.
I wanted to become an entrepreneur, and I had everything I needed to become a successful one. Yet, I failed to become one.
Ironically, it was after I stopped trying to become an entrepreneur that I started making progress towards becoming one, or rather, someone who acts on his ideas.
And here’s the interesting part: during college, no one ever told me I looked like an entrepreneur, even if I wanted to. When I stopped wanting to, that’s when I was told.
And yet, becoming an entrepreneur is no longer my goal. Instead, it is to become a great storyteller, one that can alter the course of history through his words.
That, to me, sounds far more audacious than what I previously wanted.