Students labeled emotionally disturbed in school are more likely to become entrepreneurs than to enter other occupations.
About 10 years ago, a psychiatrist followed up alumni of classes for students with emotional disturbance. He found that they were more likely to become entrepreneurs than to enter any other occupation. He published these findings in a journal of psychiatry.
I found this fact startling when I first read it. Then, I thought back on students I remembered who carried labels of emotional disturbance. I don’t know what happened to them. I think that they had the energy level to start and run a small business successfully.
I wish I remembered the source for this fact. I don’t like citing something without supporting that information with sources.
But this is an important point. It flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
I have not seen it replicated or discussed. Maybe someone can point me to that conversation.