Signs that you are a Natural Entrepreneur

A study published in the journal Development Psychology found that disobedient children earn more as adults and are also more likely to be entrepreneurs. Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Illinois and the Free University of Berlin tracked a group of 745 people over 40 years – from the age of 12 to the age of 52. They found that if you were a rule breaker and defiant of your parents as a child, you took those traits into adulthood – and they helped you to succeed.

Researchers also concluded that "rule-breaking and defiance of parental authority" was the best predictor of which students ended up making higher incomes. They admitted that this was a "surprising finding" and said that there were reasons to be cautious of it. But they did float a few theories on why this might be the case. "We might assume that students who scored high on this scale might earn a higher income because they are more willing to be more demanding during critical junctures such as when negotiating salaries or raises," they wrote.