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Entrepreneurs Are Homesteaders, But They Don’t Know It
The homesteader wilderness and its similarities to the world of entrepreneurship and the qualities needed
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau
What does it take to be a homesteader? The question may seem unrelated to your current pursuits, but it is intimately connected to everything you will do now or in the future. You are a homesteader, but you may not realize it.
Homesteading requires a certain mindset, which I believe you assume you have. If you didn’t think you had “the right stuff,” you would have been extremely skeptical and wouldn’t have embarked on this venture into the wild.
Yes, it is into the wild because you don’t know what you will meet there. We humans are limited by our current ability to imagine the unimaginable. Perhaps that’s…
