From a young age, be they a male or female, one is conditioned to unwittingly absorb the various rules and responsibilities of a narrow lifestyle (get married at ~25; have babies; earn a living; stay married till death; have grandbabies) that there is little space and time for creative pursuits.

It is all thankfully changing now of course.

I recently started a startup building a product which does not cater to the "hot" sectors like e-commerce and convincing people (we're B2B) to take a risk (for anything, even a free trial) is really hard. Also a innovative solution is generally looked with suspicion (I dont blame people for this, most shiny things here are frauds). I hope we can change this in the long run.

I wrote more on this (just yesterday) here: https://medium.com/@muktabh/why-is-a-pure-technology-startup...

Herd mentality. You are considered good if you are from childhood scoring good grades, ace all the entrance exams, enter a reputed institution, score a good job in campus placement. Any deviation from this is considered dangerous by the herd, to existence of the herd itself.

After all if one could get good by exploration and experimentation. All the effort the herd spent in being good guys since they were born, following all the rules of the society would be a colossal waste.