Gap years help young entrepreneurs build skills, gain experience, and figure out their path. Student entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship majors quickly learn hard work, routinely getting out of their comfort zone, and making good choices will take them far, but along what path? Gap-year ideas, inspiration, and advice are helpful! A gap year program buys time before you start out on your own, but it isn’t a waste of time. Whether you take a year abroad, travel elsewhere, or teach yourself to become an expert here at home, it’s time spent learning differently. It’s time to perfect the opportunity, better define your goals, and determine next steps.
As you are pondering and planning your gap year, know this idea of taking time off from collegiate studies in order to learn differently is not new news. Gap years are not simply on trend, they are smart investments into your future. Gap years help ensure you know where you are headed, that you are developing a business plan, and filling in gaps that would hinder your success.
Yes, it’s possible to waste time by not taking yourself seriously and not planning.
As a student entrepreneur and/or entrepreneurship major you can at least put your mind at ease knowing a gap year it’s not a radical, untested idea.
It’s an opportunity to test what IS untested in your plan and figure out what to do next. A gap year is an opportunity to test your own business idea and move your entrepreneurial plans forward.
“A gap year is proven to put young people ahead in life.” www.gapyear.com’s annual report, 2001.
Be as inspired as you are determined!
Take a gap year!
“Gap years should be the norm, not the exception. An increasingly ugly secret of campus life is that a mix of helicopter parenting and social media has rendered many 18-year-olds unfit for college. Ninety percent of kids who defer and take a gap year return to college and are more likely to graduate. With better grades.” ~ Scott Galloway
“I think a gap year can whet their appetite to want to learn in a way they haven’t before.” ~ LeAnn Gregory
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, it they can show what they learnt from it, it’s sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university. ~ Jean-Pascal Tricoire
See the world. Absorb advice. Find yourself.
“After my gap year I feel more connected to the world. That the endeavors I will embark on are worthwhile and that in these I am accompanied by wonderful people. The experiences on my gap year have affirmed my own idiosyncrasies and made me appreciate those of others.” ~ En Route Consulting 23/24 Gapper Ben
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” ~ Paulo Coelho
Volunteer. Travel. Create. Read. Help!
“After taking a gap year, I know myself infinitely better. I know more clearly what I want in the long shot, and I have made so many lifelong friends with wildly correlating mind sets. My gap year has gotten me out of my shell and skyrocketed my confidence in both myself and my abilities.” ~ En Route Consulting, 22/23 Gapper Innogen
“It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” ~ Asian Proverb
Explore!
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~ St. Augustine
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” ~ Unknown
What will you gain?
“In the end , we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” ~ Lewis Carroll
Gap years broaden your horizons. Take the trip. Design an adventure that allows you to watch, enjoy, and meet new people as you develop yourself. Go on. Make history. Then come back and make it happen.
You got this.
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