This ‘can’t be taught’ thing comes up a lot with entrepreneurism, at my business school the courses which dealt explicitly with entrepreneurism came back to it time and again; they had to do a lot of work to convince people (even MBA candidates) that you could just decide to be an entrepreneur, that it could be learned, that there was no secret sauce.

The same goes for creativity. I’m fairly militant about this around the office, often telling people that ‘there’s no such thing as a creative person’, because to my mind creativity is not something like height or eye colour, which you have or don’t, but something that can be learned (and in the case of creativity seems to be connected to technical excellence).

I regard myself as a relatively intelligent person, but I always fall short of people with the "hamster syndrome" as I’ve come to call it. You have a bit of the hamster syndrome, I suspect, Lars.

The term comes from a friend of mine, who is probably the most persistent and energetic person I have ever met. Constantly involved in projects, big or small. Constantly grabbing the initiative in almost every context.
He has been diagnosed with a above-average heart rate which sort of coined the humourous phrase "hamster syndrome". I feel I lack a bit of this maniac persistence. And I think that this is a very important ability in entrepreneurship. If you don’t have it in abundance, you will often find yourself more reliant on other team members. Not that this is bad – but it makes it tougher to get anywhere fast.