Entrepreneurs are not born, they evolve

Entrepreneurship can be taught to some extent (e.g. in graduate school). The classes give you a taste of it... which helps you discover if you have a flair for it...

Adam,

Glad to know that there are people who feel the same way that I do about the current school system!

Hit the nail right on the head. I am always interested in how people become entrepreneurs. I was raised by entrepreneurs and it took me years to understand that I was one too. I first tried the multiple years of education (two masters degrees) and the hell called corporate america before I realized who I really am.

I think I wasn't drawn to the entrepreneur's way of life because my parents were entrepreneurs.

We lived in an old broken down house while my friends lived in nice middle-class neighborhoods (the house was one of my parent's rentals).

Our cars were jalopies.

We were always working.

We were always short of cash.

I thought I wanted what my middle-class friends had. It never dawned on me that what my parents were doing (spending every nickle they had on buying rental property)would eventually make them multi-millionaires.

It took the pain and failure of corporate america do rediscover my roots. Yes, I'm chronically short of cash, I live in a broken down house (that I'm remodeling to be a rental), and I drive an jalopy, but I'm a whole lot happier.

Any other good self-discovery stories out there?

Entrepreneurship not simply a subject, like math, that is learned. It is much more than a mere subject.