Okay, by a show of hands, how many people in here are entrepreneurs? // Keep your hands up if you know the definition of what it means to be an entrepreneur. // Okay, so some hands went down. // So / how are you an entrepreneur / if you don't know what it means to be an entrepreneur? // At that point, you have to ask yourself, are you really an entrepreneur / or / are you just / trying and aspiring to be something / that you weren't meant to be? / Right now, in today's society, entrepreneurship / is glorified, right? // Everybody on social media / is an entrepreneur, / or they think they are, right? // So they ask themselves what I call perception questions, right? // The perception of what it means to be an entrepreneur. / They'll ask themselves, / you know, / do I want to work for someone else in my whole life or do I want to work for myself? / Yes, I want to work for myself. // They'll ask themselves if they / want to make their own schedule, right? // We're all going to say yes to that. / We want to make our own schedule. / They're going to ask themselves if they want to live a life / that they don't need a break from, right? // We're all going to say yes to that. // But I like to ask / what I call reality questions. // And these are the realities that also come with entrepreneurship, like / do you want to work 24 hours a day / or do you want to work eight hours a day? // Are you willing to take / every last dime in your bank account / and risk losing it? // You have to also say yes to those questions as well / because that's the reality / of being an entrepreneur. // We can't just take the perception of something / and not take the reality. // So people hate when I say this, but I think entrepreneurship / is something that cannot be taught. // They hate when I say that, but I really stand by that. // There's skills that can be taught, right? // You can go to a zillion summits, conferences, / workshops. / You can find great, amazing entrepreneurs to mentor you all day long, right? // You can do all of that. You might even come from a wealthy background and have the finances to back this vision and monetize off of it, / but / can you be taught to get up / and go chase those rewards that come behind the risks that you're taking? // Can you be taught to / get up and work when no one is / over you and monitoring you / and holding you accountable because you have to hold yourself accountable? // I don't think so. // I think that's something you either have or you don't / and something that you're born with. // But entrepreneurship, / it's oversaturated, / just like rapping, right? Everybody wants to be a rapper. // In L.A., everybody is an actor and model. They all drive Uber and / work at restaurants. Everyone there is an actor and model, right? // That's oversaturated, / and now entrepreneurship is. // And I didn't realize how oversaturated entrepreneurship was until earlier this year. // I went to go speak at a middle school. / This was prior to the pandemic, / and the principal reached out to me, and he said, / I want you to speak to these kids because / they equate entertainment with success. // He wanted me to talk to them about entrepreneurship. // I'm like, okay, I'll do it. / I go there, and I talk to the kids, and a few kids come up to me after. I talk to them about business. They come to me after. // There's one kid specifically, he's a 12-year-old boy. // He was like, / hey, Kiki, can you teach me / how to start a business? // I'm like, yeah, of course. I can teach you how to start a business. I'm so excited because I'm like, okay, at 12 years old, this little kid / is already thinking about being an entrepreneur.