Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and risk tolerance; engineers, mathematicians, and health care workers typically aren’t. Consider, for example, the ideal attributes of a civil engineer building an interstate bridge near your home. Do you picture a risk-tolerant engineer who is highly comfortable with uncertainty, or one who tends to prefer mathematical certainly?
Many people say the latter, but entrepreneurship — as well as the creativity and risk-taking associated with it — is an increasingly core component of commercial work, and one for which students in highly technical fields are ill-prepared.
