What if all the best entrepreneurs DO learn their skills at school – it’s just that most of us were too busy attending class to join them?

As you go about your business today, what are the chances you could still be focusing too much at showing up for the lesson while the competition is out in the playground getting deals done?

Here’s five signs you’re still living your habits from school:

1. You’re sitting at a desk.
2. Your work feels like work.
3. You’re waiting for the bell.
4. There’s a bully in the hall.
5. You think there’s more to life than this.

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This month Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert Cartoon, came up with a great article called “How to Get a Real Education”, which got published in the Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/ScottAdams).

Here’s doxycycline buy online an excerpt:

“There was a small business on our campus called The Coffee House. One day the managers of The Coffee House had a meeting to discuss two topics. First, our Minister of Employment was recommending that we fire a bartender, who happened to be one of my best friends. Second, we needed to choose a leader for westernunion florida our group. On the first cialis online order question, there was a general consensus that my friend lacked both the will and the potential to master the bartending arts. I reluctantly voted with the majority to fire him.”

“But when it came to discussing who should be our new leader, I pointed out that my friend—the soon-to-be-fired bartender—was tall, good-looking and so gifted at b.s. that he’d be the perfect leader. By the end of the meeting I had persuaded the group to fire the worst bartender that any of us had ever seen…and ask him if he would consider being our leader. My friend nailed the interview and became our Commissioner. He went on to do a terrific job. That was the year I learned everything I know about management.”

Scott goes on to give the seven lessons he would put in an entrepreneurial education – the same lessons Roger Hamilton shares in ‘Your Life, Your Legacy’, including failing forward and attracting luck.

Most importantly, as he says, “To succeed, first you must do something. And if that doesn’t work, which can be 90% of the time, do something else. Luck finds the doers.”