[TEST] Wantrepreneurs: Do You Have What It Takes To Succeed?

Are you ready to take the leap? Do you have what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur? Here’s a quick test to detect your strengths and weaknesses. Grab a pen and a piece of paper and for each question, choose the sentence or situation to which you relate the most. Be honest through your answers though, the quality of the diagnostic depending upon it. Then report to the score grid at then end of this post. Simply indicate the score A, B or C for each question, then calculate the total points.

1 | Are you ready to get over yourself or even excel?

A – “Walk or die”, that’s my motto.
B – If I have to, I get a move on, but if things worked out well til now, I don’t see why I should move forward.
C – One only lives once, why make life difficult?

2 | Do you enjoy going through with your ideas?

A – I enjoy finishing what I start, if things run well.
B – If I have an idea in mind, nothing can stop me from manifesting it.
C – I usually put problems aside hoping things will finally get sorted out on their own.

3 | Do you enjoy taking the lead?

A – I’m a good performer and I do take initiatives only if I can’t do otherwise.
B – I’m able to take initiatives if someone puts me on the right track or helps me somehow.
C – I don’t need to be told what to do. I always take the lead.

4 | When facing hard times, how do you react?

A – I’m left completely at a loss when I hear bad news.
B – I always try to avoid being slapped in the face.
C – In all circumstances, I’m even-tempered.

5 | Are you emotional?

A – I remain placid facing any event.
B – To avoid losing control, I always take time to think before taking action.
C – I tend to react excessively when I receive bad or good news.

6 | Are you an unstoppable hardworker?

A – I’m able to work intensely but not for long. I think that the most important is to give a push when needed.
B – I always work a lot and I never take a vacation. If I have something to achieve, I don’t look at the sum of efforts required. Well, I do what it takes.
C – The work prisoners never live long!

7 | How about your physical resistance?

A – I get tired very quickly.
B – I’ve got enough energy to face any major problem.
C – I’m robust and I’ll stay invincible til retirement I haven’t set the date yet.

8 | Are you an enthusiast?

A – Enthusiasm, that’s great if this doesn’t hide a lack of self-confidence.
B – It’s enthusiasm that helps people move mountains. Think about the soldiers of Year II!
C – No need to get stressed. Think about La Fontaine’s fable “The Hare and The Tortoise”.

9 | Can you get your cicle to move mountains?

A – I’m said to communicate to others such an enthusiasm that they’ll do anything.
B – Who goes slowly goes surely.
C – I’d rather motivate people by delegating responsibilities or showing consideration.

10 | Do you make decisions on a whim?

A – I’d rather make quick decisions, even if I have to relent later on. That gives me huge flexibility.
B – It depends on the circumstances.
C – I quite always refuse to make decisions on a whim. I’d rather take time to get more information and weight the pros and cons of the problem beforehand.

11 | Can you be fooled?

A – Like Saint Thomas, I only believe what I can see. By the way, I’m rarely wrong about people and I’m always grounded.
B – I usually have a good judgment, but sometimes it can be biased. For instance, when I’m psychologically too much implied.
C – My kindness, stubbornness or gullibility lead me to be fooled by people quite often or to be wrong about them.

12 | Are you afraid when facing new situations?

A – I readily adapt myself to change, but I’m looking for it only if I’m no longer happy with the current situation.
B – I love and I’m looking for change. I’m being comfortable in any new situation.
C – It’s the pioneers who were killed by the Indians. Hence why I’d rather build myself a citadel and shelter.

13 | Is your business your only area of interest?

A – I’d rather be an expert in my field than over-diversifying.
B – I try do develop my powers of observation so I can force myself to get out of my ivory tower.
C – I’m interested in everything around me. I’m curious of everything and that gives me loads of ideas.

14 | Are you a visionary?

A – Intuiting, I’d rather keep a rational and systematic approach.
B – It happens that I sense the events beforehand, but sometimes my intuition leads me to end up quite disappointed.
C – I’ve got a sixth sense. I do believe that I master the art of anticipating change.

Calculate your score!

Depending on the score you get, discover now the best advice given by the expert in entrepreneurship Robert Papin

More than 40 points: Just do it!

You’ve probably got the qualities that helped many entrepreneurs become great leaders. Now all you need is a brilliant business idea and perhaps to get some knowledge and skills in management.

Between 30 and 40 points: Think twice…

Starting a business is a great adventure, but the price to pay is more likely to be too much for you. Think well about the prospective consequences of your weaknesses. Perhaps you should postpone starting a business now or recruit the collaborators who will palliate some of your failings.

Less than 30 points: Be realistic!

Don’t take the leap head down into an adventure that can bring you more disappointments than satisfactions. If your main motivation is to be your own boss, don’t forget that you can also take on big responsibilities in an existing corporation. If you wish to own your own business, why not buy an existing company that is already in good shape?

[WARNING]

Like any other test, this one is not meant to find out whether you’ve got the entrepreneur profile – life has shown us there aren’t any – but rather to make a sort of psychological assessment in order to discover the strengths on which you can rely and inversely detect the aspects of your personality that may make the adventure more difficult to live.

In the way the score is calculated, this test readily confers a huge importance to 4 personality traits that are fundamental for the starting stage: the capacity to surpass, tenacity, resistance to shocks and a good health. With this test, Robert Papin wish he could help those who are about to start their own business (or currently consider doing so) inviting them to ask themselves this key question: Am I ready for this great adventure? If that’s not the case, there are several solutions: to find one or several business partners who have a complementary profile, to take time to deepen our motivations or else… to give up.

By Aline Kerneis
Founder at Boost Your Impact, VC Investor & Virgin StartUp Mentor

Ever since, Aline has been advising hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, inventors and SMEs of a wide range of markets. She has provided business & personal coaching for many of these clients, helping them to unlock their full potential.

Previously, Aline graduated from the International Business School (Paris) with two Business Master’s degrees and, before that, with a Management HND and a second-year university degree in Laws & Economics. However, she was – and is still – a self-taught, constantly studying key books from all over the world to keep adding new knowledge and skills to her existing portfolio with one single objective: bringing more value to her clients.

In five years, she will set up a global foundation based on a pyramidal scheme to help abused women transform their lives through walking the entrepreneurial road.

She is also a mind-shaking writer.

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