Being an entrepreneur can be very beneficial if you pursue to get a liberal arts education because you will be able to adapt to all different types of situations that will come up. Like when having your own business everything changes all time because your businesses are always inconsistent in many ways. One week you are super busy and the next you are very slow. So adapting when having your own business is very important because you need to make sure that you are keeping up with all they competition around you and also being able to stay in business. Always make sure that you’re updating your business outline because it will help remind you of the changing in the market. Adapting to change frequently requires the effective use of all your skills that you learned from getting a liberal arts degree. To be prepared to deal with change successfully, it’s important that you learned the most skills that will help you learn how to adapt in different situations.Having a liberal arts education will help you get the bigger picture on how things work in the …show more content…
By earning a liberal arts education you will develop strength of mind and an ordered intellect. “The mind is like a muscle; by exercising it makes it stronger and more able to grasp ideas and do intellectual work.”(Robert Harris) This is very beneficial for owning a business because there are many ideas and different scenarios that can happen. “Exercising the mind in one area whether literature of sociology or accounting will strength and concentration, the ability to follow arguments and the ability to distinguish the important from the trivial and to grasp new concepts all the become easier as the mind is exercised and enlarged by a varied study.”(Robert Harris) These concepts from Harris are very important to running a business because there are many different jobs in running a business like accounting, management, production, sales, marketing, and advertising. These jobs are very difficult to master because they require so much studying. Accounting is in charge of keeping track of financial transactions, and also summarizing, analyzing and reporting the transactions to tax collection. This job mostly requires math and learning different types of math equations on how to figure out different financial transactions. If you want to master these jobs you are going to fail at the beginning, by you failing you will develop a better structure on how to figure things out. A