THE LOST ART OF DREAMING...

As kids, we often didn't question our dreams, we acted it out to the amusing eyes of Adults.

We never bothered about who watched us and doubled with laughter as we adorned ourselves in rags and tags and jumped from north to south to act the dream.

Our eyes would lit up with fire, and our hearts would beat with pride as we shamelessly acted the dream in the rain and in the sun.

We're adults now. I wonder what has happened to us- to you.
Are you sure you're still like that kid?

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I'm asking.

Most of these great entrepreneurs from western countries were molded right from when they were kids.

If you're the type that watches American movies, you get to see recurring scenes of a blonde girl of seven or eight selling lemonade on the porch of her house. You get to see a father paying his son for doing his laundry. One morning, little boy wakes up and says, "Dad, I'm starting a laundry business". And the father replies, "Congratulations son, you've got the message"

I mean, subtle ways are employed by parents to teach kids entrepreneurship with practical illustrations over there. No shouting. No shoving of theories down their throats, just using day to day experiences to pass the message. And by the time these kids clocks seventeen, they already own multiple brands and businesses raking in millions.

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But over here, hmmm, the differences are too vast.

"Junior, come and wash my clothes. Junior, come and iron them. Junior wash my car". No thought on parent's part to viciously communicate the idea of entrepreneurship to the kid.

So, Junior grows up with the mindset that these are all chores and not as a medium of making money, not as a medium of standing on his feet and being a boss of his own. His mind is completely shut off to the opportunities staring at him. He grows up and passes it to the next Junior and the cycle continues.

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Well, I won't blame our parent's for this; most of us are a product of this darkness.

But now we're enlightened enough to have seen the harm that was caused by this darkness, we would muster up to responsibility by changing the narratives with our kids. Personally, I would ensure my kids see the opportunities around them. Even if I have to pay them for washing the dishes or cleaning the house. The idea is to open their mind and for them to see the limitless possibilities before them.

You owe this much to your kids. Or do you want them to also flip through those boring textbooks on entrepreneurship like you did way back in school?

I don't want it for my kids. Practical is the real deal.
The future we seek tomorrow starts today, the fire that burns a city starts from a backyard.

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