Treading an unknown path

Reading an unknown path.
This is I think one of the most adventurous and revered thing that an individual would want to do in his lifetime.
Treading an unknown path.
We have living Histories of people like Steve Jobs and Bill gates who travelled that unknown path,broken myths,customs and everything and have become the most respected and feared people in the corporate world.
Yet both had dropped school in their college life.
Like them there are many more examples.Dhirubhai too is our best Indian examples and coupled with him are all those Gujaratis who have travelled that uncommon ways ands have set examples for those unknowns. If that was not all then there were people like who even got into the IIMs and IITs and did not think twice when they finally made up their mind to go anew and create that path which might take centuries to follow up again.

So what makes an individual take up such extreme steps. History is full of such examples. If we were to talk in terms of BC then there is always Aristotle to quote who despite eing from an aristrocratic background decided to go on his own.
In search of wilderness. maybe that describes them better. Steve Jobs,when he left the college didn't even know what he wanted. Though bill gates on the contrary always had a vision. He moved clear goal and a determined spirit. Yet he dropped out in his pre final year of his college.
Aristotle too went the same.
Yet they were all labelled insane. Yet in their course of insanity they changed History and became living Histories themselves.

The first thing that stikes me is why do they want to take such a step. The answer I guess lies in their individuality. It probably seems that they are born with a different set of traits,a soul that commands free will,never to be tied down to anything. A heart that is rebellious,which does not find any meaning in the commonly pursuits of a common mind.
While most other success stories that we have read have been a success of struggle,but these were the men who created histroy by choice and acknowledgement of giving up something that sounded the good.

One of the primary reason that I personally feel makes people take a different and an extreme route is in their satisfaction.Yes by satisfaction I mean pure and happy heart which is content of what it has creates with its soul.
Well what I mean to say here is for most people success is a relative term.For example when thousands of people are running after something which they think is good and one such individual who has won it comes out to be a success. But one problem that exists here is that this success was a relative term. He got here because others could not. So he feels proud not because he has achieved something rather because he has defeated many.It is the social sanction given by the society that makes him feel proud.

By treading a different path what I mean to say is to find that one thing that gives you the utmost happiness. I know everyone cannot be an entrepreneur in the true 16th century Italian sense, but yes what I know is that this question can only be answered by an individual who has gone thorugh the ordeal of trying to be an entrepreneur and finally been unsuccessful. The rest they die with the notion that If I could......'
More different from the dictionay meaning of entreprenuership,I would like o define it in a philosophical sense that it is trading an unkown path, a path that leads to you ultimately and at the end of the road you find yourself.
A balance between the heart and the mind is inevitable though because as one treads the path he cannot and just cannot ignore the world inhabited by other men. Thats why Steve ?Jobs,even though he was successful, failed once in his lifetime but then he again rose and this time he remains a constant success.
The point is,in the initial haydays of the struggle,we should not be afraid of loosing something or anything,especially those which we have not achieved, but once we reach a stage of life where we have gained something,we seriously cannot think of loosing it again. No wonder Warren Buffet says: "The first rule is to never lose money and the second rule is to never forget the first."
Remember,if at this moment of your life if you are striving for success, you cannot remain in the loop if what frightens you is the cake that you are going at he end, but yes once you have found your path,achieved something,then you should always remember that there are many sitting there who would want to eat your cake even if it does not matter that it would give them satisfaction and hat the cake is of their taste.Since they have never cared to find what their taste is like,they will continue to get jealous of yo because they see you enjoying your cake and they come to terms to the fact that your cake must be something special.
Anyways more on this later.