A Victim Mentality Will Doom an Entrepreneur

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15 points·thankuz··8 comments

This isn't just true for entrepreneurs. A victim mentality will doom anyone.

Keen an open mind (and open eyes), have confidence in your abilities but be ready to learn, and keep bouncing back.

I agree with the main point of the article that you can't have the victim mindset, but disagree with the examples. Thinking any of these things doesn't mean you're doomed. Only if you let it stop you.

But it's not my fault I have a victim mentality... it's brought on by forces outside my control!

Normally I would think that saying "I failed due to reasons beyond my control" is a victim mentality as opposed to "I failed due to things I can change next time" - however the article takes the opposite tack.

From TFA: "People with a victim mentality should never be entrepreneurs."

Does you folks know anyone with the victim mentality that has actually become an entrepreneur? I've got several people in my life that are victim-minded and say they would like to be entrepreneurs...but they generate 10 scenarios of failure for every entrepreneurial idea they encounter. As a result they never take the necessary risk to start anything.

There's a difference between risk-aversion and victim mentality. People who are risk averse will look for reasons to not do something. People who have a victim mentality might actually go ahead and do the thing, but if they fail they'll think it's because the universe hates them (or something similar).

I am a victim of Hacker News. I need to quit reading and commenting on banal blog posts and get back to work!!

I think victim mentality just one of the many faults listed in the article others being negativity, over-sensitivity and fatalism.

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