"It’s a unique combination of breaking rules and being smart that helps you become an entrepreneur"
This seems like the key point - you have to be experimental, non-risk-averse, and a little stubborn. Plus both activities are tons of fun!
This seems like the key point - you have to be experimental, non-risk-averse, and a little stubborn. Plus both activities are tons of fun!
To take it even farther (because this wouldn't be the internet if I weren't trying to one up everyone including myself):
Stoners have great ideas, some stoners go to jail for petty posession 3 times and do not get much of a chance at life after being incarcerated. I don't think I need to point out which stoners end up going to jail, and which get a slap on the wrist and get to smoke on a college campus later.
I'm really not trying to enrage anyone -- I just think this article was super unbalanced
Those are what poor kids don't have.
Although it does make me wonder the degree of correlation between troubled teens, lack of moral compass, and entrepreneur.
I would argue that a stronger internal sense of morality helps one find these cracks in the system to become entrepreneur.
A lack of moral compass would mean one would do whatever it takes without bounds to achieve the desired outcome. NSA, Crack Dealers,
A strong internal moral compass would let someone think it's not a bad thing to grow pot and sell it(George Washington), protect their wealth during hyperinflation with bit-coin (Argentina, Greece), Bring cheep education to the masses (OCW, Schwartz).
I think the idea you are looking for is: socially suggested morals. But the 'troubled' kids are smart enough to question what they see, open enough to imagine a better way, stubborn enough to not listen to nay-sayers without good arguments.