Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus Thinks Even Authors Can Be Entrepreneurs
His microcredit movement has helped millions of new entrepreneurs around the world and shows a way forward for meaning-makers in the new economy
Sure, the economics are different. The relative inequalities are different. The landscape and industries are different.
But I am with Nobel Prize winner, global visionary, and economic development activist Muhammad Yunus on one thing: Entrepreneurship isn’t just for some people. It is a pathway available to all human beings.
Entrepreneurship is using innate human creativity, problem-solving, and service orientations — and instincts for survival and curiosity and expansion — to bring about useful, valuable, appreciated goods, services, and ideas to fellow human beings.
Authors already do that and they can learn how that easily translates into a profitable enterprise of any size that suits them. Yes, much that underlies entrepreneurship is inherent in living human lives, but there are also practical skills and orienting mindsets we can learn in order to harness what’s “natural” and create something substantive and enduring from that.
