Do you have the personality to be an entrepreneur?
A Montreal firm, Psychtests, in collaboration with Bill Wagner, author of “The Entrepreneur Next Door,” has created a test to guage whether would-be entrepreneurs possess the social and risk-taking skills that are among key traits common in successful entrepreneurs.
With more than 12,000 test-takers to date, Psychtests says its data revealed that entrepreneurs outscored those without business experience on every scale.
When comparing female vs. male entrepreneurs, men were more driven than women (score of 67 vs. 62 on a scale from 0 to 100), while women had better social skills (70 vs. 67) and tended to be more optimistic (72 vs. 67).
“Entrepreneurs clearly have a personality pattern that places them distinctly apart from others,” said Psychtests President Ilona Jerabek. “To be able to wager your life savings on what often seems like a pipe dream to others takes a special type of character, and our data shows this.”
For example, 72 percent of test-takers who are entrepreneurs, Jerabek said, indicate that they are quite comfortable taking monetary or work-related risks, compared to 54 percent of the rest of the test-takers in its sample.
Entrepreneurs also tend to describe themselves as being more ambitious than regular people.
To take a condensed version of the test to assess your entrepreneurial potential can go to http://testyourself.psychtests.com/testid/3011
