Today they laugh at you, tomorrow they want to be your best friends
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:20 am
Mark Twain once said that a man with a new idea is a madman until the idea works. All of that sounds wonderful and wonderful, however, he did not give us the answer to two questions: how to deal with that title of madman, and how long we have to have it. It is not easy to be that “madman”, especially not in our beautiful country, where at almost every step you are expected to be “normal”, and to behave as you should. This is something that we in psychology call conformism .
Conformity is actually any form of changing your own behavior, attitudes, and beliefs, with the aim of adapting to some norms and rules of the group of people you are currently in. This adaptation can range from very subtle expectations (silencing your cell phone when entering a movie theater, because you are expected not to disrupt the film screening), to extreme forms of social pressure (your child who starts smoking cigarettes so as not to be rejected by his or her peers).
How does conformity affect our entrepreneurship? You can lithuania whatsapp data often hear statements like “Why are you opening a company in these difficult times?”, “There is a bad entrepreneurial climate in Croatia”, “The taxes and benefits are high when you have a company”, “We have an extremely small market” and the like. I guess it would be best to be grateful that you have a steady job from 8 to 4 that you should “peel” until retirement, because obviously the realization of your own entrepreneurial idea is a less acceptable form of behavior. However, those who have even the slightest entrepreneurial spirit in them know that this is simply not their life choice.
Why do others laugh at you anyway?
Sometimes it's laughter, sometimes it's disapproval, criticism, or concern. There can be several reasons for such behavior:
You want to start something of your own, and you are automatically different from others, and who else has seen being different from others?
They are resistant to your entrepreneurial idea because they are simply not ready for what you are offering them, no matter how good it is for them.
There is a hint of jealousy and envy in them, because you dared to do what many want to do, but simply don't have the courage to do it.
Are they maybe angry with you because you thought of initiating this idea before them?
Or maybe they have bad beliefs and attitudes about entrepreneurship, and their worldview is simply such that they perceive entrepreneurial ventures as something negative.
Let's face it, anyone who has started their own business has encountered countless "derisions" from others. Your environment is full of people who are skeptical or simply think that you won't succeed, and - worst of all - they mean it with the best of intentions. Unfortunately, such comments and other people's opinions can be devastating to our self-confidence. Sometimes we don't find support even from our closest friends and family members, or from those people from whom we expected that support the most. It can really hurt. What you can do in those moments is not to take it as a bad thing, and to continue to focus on your goal.
Conformity is actually any form of changing your own behavior, attitudes, and beliefs, with the aim of adapting to some norms and rules of the group of people you are currently in. This adaptation can range from very subtle expectations (silencing your cell phone when entering a movie theater, because you are expected not to disrupt the film screening), to extreme forms of social pressure (your child who starts smoking cigarettes so as not to be rejected by his or her peers).
How does conformity affect our entrepreneurship? You can lithuania whatsapp data often hear statements like “Why are you opening a company in these difficult times?”, “There is a bad entrepreneurial climate in Croatia”, “The taxes and benefits are high when you have a company”, “We have an extremely small market” and the like. I guess it would be best to be grateful that you have a steady job from 8 to 4 that you should “peel” until retirement, because obviously the realization of your own entrepreneurial idea is a less acceptable form of behavior. However, those who have even the slightest entrepreneurial spirit in them know that this is simply not their life choice.
Why do others laugh at you anyway?
Sometimes it's laughter, sometimes it's disapproval, criticism, or concern. There can be several reasons for such behavior:
You want to start something of your own, and you are automatically different from others, and who else has seen being different from others?
They are resistant to your entrepreneurial idea because they are simply not ready for what you are offering them, no matter how good it is for them.
There is a hint of jealousy and envy in them, because you dared to do what many want to do, but simply don't have the courage to do it.
Are they maybe angry with you because you thought of initiating this idea before them?
Or maybe they have bad beliefs and attitudes about entrepreneurship, and their worldview is simply such that they perceive entrepreneurial ventures as something negative.
Let's face it, anyone who has started their own business has encountered countless "derisions" from others. Your environment is full of people who are skeptical or simply think that you won't succeed, and - worst of all - they mean it with the best of intentions. Unfortunately, such comments and other people's opinions can be devastating to our self-confidence. Sometimes we don't find support even from our closest friends and family members, or from those people from whom we expected that support the most. It can really hurt. What you can do in those moments is not to take it as a bad thing, and to continue to focus on your goal.