We have argued from the very beginning that everyone will need to develop entrepreneurial skills to thrive in the years ahead. Given how fast the global economy is involving and the number of jobs—and indeed entire industries—that are disappearing you simply have no choice.
And we have explored in depth the thought process you need to follow when dealing with all the uncertainty we now face.
You:
* Determine your desire, i.e. you begin by figuring out what you really want to have happen. Then  
* Take a small step toward finding or creating something that will allow you to capitalize on that desire.  From there
* Learn from taking that small step.
* Build off that learning and take another step. Then
* Learn from that one…and so on
It’s a model that we call: Act. Learn. Build. Repeat.
We have taught this approach in our Just Start course (www.Just-Start.com). Tom McDonough (www.getappia.com), one of the participants in our course, has taken our ideas and built on it. He argues—and we believe him—that it is possible using this approach that anyone could develop an entrepreneurial mindset in 12 weeks. And he is in the process of creating a course of his own to show people how to do just that.
“Developing an entrepreneurial mindset is key to successfully managing one’s career in this time of rapid market change and the uncertainty it brings,” Tom says. “Yet many people aren’t cut out to be entrepreneurs in the sense of running their own business, so how can they develop the entrepreneurial mindset? The only way to develop it by doing―using the act, learn build repeat  model.”
Here’s what we take from the underlying premise of Tom’s course.
1. Everyone is, or can be, expert in something. Or
2. Many of us can make things, or have ideas for a small service we could offer.
Given those two insights, the question is whether that thing, service or expertise is valuable enough that some group of people will pay you for it.  If so, how do you get started and find those people? And how do you offer that expertise at a cost to you of less than what you get paid for it?