I guess it comes down to the influence of the parents, especially when the kids are that young in age, as per the lad in this post. Opportunity needs to be there too, although many have created their own opportunities I guess also, been innovative and all.
I can tell you've been, and probably are, quite happy to try your hand at things...so many fear failure (or hard work) and so never try things. I also like how you've seen the need to educate yourself a little on financial matters and understanding...so many simply don't and aim believe they pay a high price for it...credit debt spiralling out of control because not being able to make sound purchasing decisions and all the ramifications of such credit debt.
You seem quite responsible and that's a good thing, it means that should you have the chance to excel, say in a country that is more financially sound, you probably will do great things.
I agree with you a lot, butcI think that opportunities can be created (for example, we charged much less than the gardeners and did almost the same work and we were from the neighborhood, so the neighbors didn’t hesitate to give us their gardens) if we hadn’t had gardens, we probably would have walked dogs (the smallest ones of course😅) which we also did at another time. I think that if you prepare yourself, look for and want the opportunity, it will present itself.
In my case, I do fear failure (it would be a lie to tell you otherwise) but I still do it, failing is part of life and I reached a point where I liked failing, because I realized that by failing I improved twice as much, learned twice as much and grew twice as much as people (so failure became an unexpected victory)
It doesn’t matter where you live, to have a future, to achieve what you want, you can’t lack financial education and I understood this at the moment that my first venture got out of hand because I didn’t know how to manage my finances, it was a venture about fresh natural juices and the idea was good but my financial education was poor, so I set out to learn and improve, it doesn’t matter if you live in a country broken economically or in the best one in the world, if you don’t have financial education you will be in trouble and I wouldn’t like to see myself like that. And if I hope to do well in another country, at least working hard doesn’t scare me anymore 😅
It's up to the individual to see, participate and actively seek to benefit from opportunities in life, that helps a person move forward, so I agree with you, and think if that ethos is instilled from childhood it's more likely to spill over into adulthood.
I get it, many do...but you need to embrace it, that's the best way to learn and undertaking a difficult thing even though failure may result means you're undertaking a difficult thing, and we all know that through trying comes succeeding, it's just that sometimes the journey is circuitous. One thing is for certain though...not trying something because of possible failure means one has failed to try, and so failed completely.
I think you're on the right track and if you try more often than you do not try, fail often and tray again, great results will follow.