What are the lessons that you learned after reading the commencement address of Steve Jobs? (at least 1000words)
Living a perfect life is impossible for life is unfair. There are things we need to experience inorder for us to grow and develop as wells as lessons to learn no matter how hard it is for us to overcome. As we go on with our lives, we always happen to learn life’s essential lessons the hard way around.
As I carefully read through Steven Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford way back 2005, I managed to learn some essential and relevant lessons that are of great help to us. First lesson I have learned with his speech was in connecting the dots. He was perfectly right that you cannot connect the dots by looking forward; you can only connect it by looking backwards. There are things we tend to overlook as we go over our lives. Things that we thought are of little or no relevance at all. But, as time goes by, we were caught off guard by the things we previously thought that those things was irrelevant to us. For example, Steven Jobs can’t see the value of going to college so he dropped out. But as time progresses, he stumbled on the calligraphed texts and noticed that it was beautiful. Moving on, Steve Jobs decided to enroll at a calligraphy class at Reed College. As time passed, he managed and learned on how to beautifully write texts. He found out that even science can’t capture its art. If he did not dropped out at college, there was a big possibility that he can’t come across at the beautifully typed texts and the likes. And the Mac would not have its beautiful typefaces. This was the way the dots connect at Steve Jobs life. Clearly, we cannot connect the dots in our life just by relying on the present scenario, we just have to trust and hope that somehow, someday our dots will connect.
Next was perseverance pays a lot. We knew that Steve Jobs didn’t finish college, but look at him now, he is earning a lot. Steve Jobs persevere together with Woz and they begin to build there masterpiece way back years ago. I also learned that some people took a long time just to know their interest in life. Good for Steven Jobs because he managed to know his interest at an early stage. Even though some of us had a lot of time wasted in search of our interest, still when that time comes, the fruits of our labor will turn out just fine. We need to have faith and do our part.
I also learned that being on the top requires a lot of painstaking maneuver and respect. And one should be careful whom to trust. Steven Jobs got fired from his own company during his 30’s by the people he entrusted with. Imagine, just by merely trusting someone or somebody could instantly make or break an individual, and Steven Jobs is no exception to the rule. We should be careful enough and meticulously examine every detail of the situation even if it requires us our precious time, in turn, it could be beneficial to us.
As days goes by, Steven Jobs managed to pick himself up from the failures of his life, from being ousted from his very own company, the Apple Computer Inc., Steve Jobs drew attention due to this situation. He returned back to being a beginner. Imagine, from the top he plunged down to the very bottom. This proves that what goes up must come down but the law of gravity didn’t states on how painful it is to fall from the top. But the unfortunate event in Steven Jobs’ life turned out just fine, thus it paved the way for Steven Jobs to be more creative and innovative and then he managed to build another computer company in which he called NEXT. The failure of Steven Jobs just turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him. How I wish life were just as the same as Jobs’. Life seemed just unraveled its beauty onto his side.
You’ve got to love what you are doing, Steven Jobs said. It is very true and it implies to each and every one of us. We have to love what we are doing in order for us to produce top quality outputs in life. Just by loving what we are doing, we can assure ourselves that we give our best to everything we have done. And of course, we can guarantee to them that it is the best of our doing. You can also feel satisfaction just by loving what you are doing with your life. And if by chance you still did not found the things you love to do, use your heart, feel everything that is of importance to you and is related to you. And if you managed to use your heart, I’m sure you will find what you are looking for. Just don’t settle, always keep looking. Just like in every relationship, it gets better and better as time goes by. Keep looking, keep moving.
If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right Steve Jobs said. If you apply that lesson to your everyday life, you can guarantee yourself that you have done something right, something very useful, something that has relevance and something that you love. I also learned to live your life to the fullest without regrets, and without doubts. I also learned that money should not be the priority of every one; it should be our family, our loved ones. Money can’t buy happiness; money can’t buy you an extra life. Yet, money should be set aside, you should take care first of your family, because whatever happens to you, your family will always be by your side, constantly and undyingly supporting you with everything they can. Being with you family gives you energy to continue living and striving.
And lastly, we should not be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of others thinking. Our time is limited, so in turn; we should do our best to leave a mark onto this world, something worth dying for.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
IT Elective - Assignment 3
my purpose in life is ......
To live my life to the fullest.
To enjoy my borrowed time without regrets.
To know myself better and deeper.
and lastly, to find the answer to my question: "why am i here in this world, would it be better if im not here?"
To live my life to the fullest.
To enjoy my borrowed time without regrets.
To know myself better and deeper.
and lastly, to find the answer to my question: "why am i here in this world, would it be better if im not here?"
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs
Thank you. I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever—because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We’d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I’d just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I’d been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors’ code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Thank you all, very much.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever—because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We’d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I’d just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I’d been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors’ code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Thank you all, very much.
Monday, August 9, 2010
IT-Elective Assignment 2
your reflections/insights on your personal traits test ... (at least 2000 words)
buffering
As I entered our room in technopreneurship, I was surprised and puzzled when I saw my classmates with their yellow papers and pens. I hurriedly asked them what’s going to happen, and they just simply said that we are going to have our prelim exam. I am not ready to take the exam for I had not yet reviewed our past lessons in technopreneurship.
Our facilitator came and instructed us to get a 1 whole sheet of paper and to answer the exam for just 30 minutes! I was shocked after his declaration of the exams, I wasn’t ready!. For God’s sake!. After our facilitator presented the questions with the aid of the projector, as I carefully read the statements, my feeling of helplessness were gone, for the questions were easy and it is up to you to choose your preferences. The title of the test was Personality Trait Test. The test is self-explanatory; this kind of test was intended to show a person’s approach in different scenarios.
After answering all the 32 questions, we are tasked to check our own paper. There was a specific point per letter. By the way, there were only two choices; it’s either an A or B. You have to pick one in every number. The statements were somehow related to every one of us. Wherein, it seems to be both right. You have to choose between the two statements. After checking the answers, I got a score of 40. And that score falls in the Average Technopreneur, meaning, I have the potential in the field of technopreneurship.
Here is an excerpt taken form a standard personality test:
• You do your best to complete a task on time
YES/ NO
• You are strongly touched by the stories about people's troubles
YES /NO
• You are more interested in a general idea than in the details of its realization
YES /NO
• Strict observance of the established rules is likely to prevent a good outcome
YES/ NO
• Often you prefer to read a book than go to a party
YES/ NO
• You tend to rely on your experience rather than
on theoretical alternatives
YES/ NO
As you can see, there are only two choices in every statement. All you have to do is to choose the best answer that suits you. You may wonder the accuracy and validity of such test. But throughout time, personality tests have grown more and more refined, increasing the accuracy and validity of their results. A personality test is a great tool for any employer who wishes to get to know a potential employee better, before hiring them. And this test are interpreted by a specialized psychologist.
The personality test results can bring a lot of valuable information regarding the candidate. Fitting the candidate into a certain pattern or category is done by comparison, evaluating personal characteristics and comparing them against standardized results.
Did you happen to ask yourself, what are personality traits?
As I googled for the meaning of personality traits, I found out that:
Personality traits are intrinsic differences that remain stable throughout most of our life. They are the constant aspects of our individuality. And traits are distinguishing qualities or characteristics of a person. Traits are a readiness to think or act in a similar fashion in response to a variety of different stimuli or situations.
Moreover, personality traits can be interpreted as both positive and negative traits. For instance, being critical is one of your personal traits. This could be an edge if you are an editor of a magazine or any type of publishing company, or your job is a meat inspector. It would be a negative if you are a supervisor trying to gain rapport with an employee. In addition, knowing one’s personality traits will be a great help to them.
Thus, providing them the edge and the upperhand in many aspects in life, for example, if a person knows beforehand his traits, before he engages to life’s challenges, he can use it to turn the stacks away from him. He can manage to be more productive in his on way.
To sum it all, every person around us has their own personal traits. We use our traits consciously and subconsciously when it comes to problem solving and decision making. We tend to grab onto our traits just to accomplish something in our lives. And when it comes to technopreneurship, our good traits, matter most.
As I went over the internet, I found out that Allport and Odbert (1936, cited in Funder, 2001) found 17,953 words to describe the way people are psychologically different from each other for example: shy, trustworthy, laconic, phlegmatic, kind, conscientious, and anxious just to name a few in out of a thousand personality traits. All these words describe personality traits.
Trait approach tries to synthesize and formalize these traits in order to explain and predict human behaviour.
Underlying questions driving the trait approaches to personality include:
• What traits are basic/essential to our personality?
• How many traits are there?
• How do we find out our traits?
As we go over with our everyday lives, we tend to understand much better our personality traits. And if not, we can always find help. Help not only encourages us to know ourselves better but also to enhance our skills and pinpoint our good traits that will help to uplift our lives, and be a good and wise technopreneur someday.
However the whole issue of whether a trait exists in all people to a greater or lesser degree is complicated by different views of the trait perspective.
There are two different views as to whether all traits exist in all people, first is idiographic: people have unique personality structures; thus some traits are more important in understanding the structure of some people than others. The Idiographic view emphasizes that each person has a unique psychological structure and that some traits are possessed by only one person; and that there are times when it is impossible to compare one person with others. This viewpoint also emphasizes that traits may differ in importance from person to person (cardinal, central and secondary traits). It tends to use case studies, bibliographical information, diaries etc for information gathering.
Next is nomothetic: people's unique personalities can be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistently across people. The Nomothetic view, on the other hand, emphasizes comparability among individuals but sees people as unique in their combination of traits. This viewpoint sees traits as having the same psychological meaning in everyone. The belief is that people differ only in the amount of each trait. It is this which constitutes their uniqueness. This approach tends to use self-report personality questions, factor analysis etc. People differ in their positions along a continuum in the same set of traits.
Most contemporary psychologists tend towards a nomothetic approach (and the trait approach is often viewed solely as a nomothetic approach these days), but they are aware of how a trait may be slightly different from person to person in the way that it is expressed.
In order for us student to find a career path that we will find both challenging and satisfying, we must first learn about ourself. The following questions are just a hint for us inorder to help us pinpoint our personality traits.
Here it goes:
* What do you like to do?
* What skills do you have?
* Which skills do you like to use?
* What kind of work setting fits best with your personality type?
* What is your personality type??
There are many ways to assess and to know ones personality traits. A good example to this is in the internet. One can surf to the internet to find one. However, if you would like a more in-depth self-understanding, it is recommended that you meet with a certain people who can provide you with “standardized assessments”. This comprises different tests that will help you to know yourself better, especially in finding and knowing your good personality traits that are relevant to you. With the guidance of this people, you can develop a profile of yourself, including your personality traits, good and bad.
The most common places to find this people are: College and University Career Centers, Community Agencies, Private Career Counselors and Instructors/facilitators.I’m pretty sure that this people can really help someone to find their good personality traits as well as the bad ones.
Are you interested in what you are doing in your life now? Or are you just enjoying your life to the extent that you forget to build and mold your future?.
Just because we are interested in something does not mean that we automatically are good at it. It's a known fact that we are most likely to excel at what we like to do. Think of things you have done in the past where you succeeded, take for example, you volunteered at the local high school, you wrote a poem that was published or you designed a computer program.
How does it feel to accomplish such task? Did it uplifted your morale and boosted your self-esteem? I bet yes.
Knowing our personal traits test result does not imply or show us how good and successful we will be as a technopreneur. There are more essential things that could affect your being as a technopreneur than taking the Personality Traits Tests. We need the skills as well as values inorder for us to succeed and blossom.
Think of anything that you do better than average. These are the skills you want inorder for you to have a stepping stone in technopreneurship.
Some examples might be: organizing and developing project or good writing skills and ability to remember details accurately
To be a technopreneur someday, we need the skills inorder for us to become successful. These skills are grouped into 2 different groups, the transferable skills and the nontransferable skills. Transferable skills are those skills that can be used in one job or another. Nontransferable skills are generally specific to a certain job or type of work. Let’s go deeper to this types of skills, shall we?
First on the list is the transferable skills, this skill is broken up into two categories worker skills and functional skills. These skills can be transferred from one job to another.
Look at everything you do in your life. Even skills developed in the home (budgeting) or hobbies (attention to details, organizing) can be “transferred" into a work setting.
1) Good worker skills allows you to be flexible to different jobs.
Example: Accepting responsibilities, Organized, Meeting deadlines
2) Functional skills are general skills useful in a variety of jobs.
Example: Analyzing data, Managing people, Operating machinery
All jobs utilize data, people and things, but most jobs emphasize one category over others. For example, computer system analysts work with data, counselors work with people and auto mechanics work with cars.
Next is the nontransferable skills, a good example to this kind of skill is the technical skill, it may or may not be used in other settings. Technical skills apply to a specific job or occupation. Take for example: Drawing is for cartoonist, Teeth cleaning is to dental hygienist and Sewing is to tailor.
Aside from acquiring skills, we need also values. Identifying your values is one of the most important factors in considering your career choices. Vital questions that need to be explored include: Do my values match my interest?, Do my values match the work involved in a particular career?
Often times people are disappointed when they find their chosen career does not match with their values. For instance, the career may involve long hours (no family time) or does not pay a large salary (no out of town vacations).
There two kinds of values explored here: Work Values and Personal Values. Work values deals with factors that you consider important to you on the job.
Often, you may wonder what your personality type exactly is. Or, you may also wonder what the personality type of your co-workers, friends, or family is. The easiest way to determine this is to take a personality trait test. A personality trait test is a test that is designed to tell you exactly what type of a person you are, and often tells you what the advantages and disadvantages of your personality is. In addition, a personality trait test will also tell you personality types to avoid, which is useful for an emerging technopreneur.
Regardless of which personality trait test you decide to take, sharing the results (and challenging your friends and family to do the same) is half of the fun. Most of these tests can be quickly emailed (with a link to the test website), posted in a blog, or posted on your personal website. It is very important for everyone to know what type of person they are, and taking personality tests help you to understand yourself.
References:
http://www.personality-and-aptitude-career-tests.com/personality-trait-test.html
http://www.csun.edu/~sp20558/dis/discover.html
http://wilderdom.com/personality/L6-2PersonalityTraits.html
http://www.gotestgo.com/personality_test.html
buffering
As I entered our room in technopreneurship, I was surprised and puzzled when I saw my classmates with their yellow papers and pens. I hurriedly asked them what’s going to happen, and they just simply said that we are going to have our prelim exam. I am not ready to take the exam for I had not yet reviewed our past lessons in technopreneurship.
Our facilitator came and instructed us to get a 1 whole sheet of paper and to answer the exam for just 30 minutes! I was shocked after his declaration of the exams, I wasn’t ready!. For God’s sake!. After our facilitator presented the questions with the aid of the projector, as I carefully read the statements, my feeling of helplessness were gone, for the questions were easy and it is up to you to choose your preferences. The title of the test was Personality Trait Test. The test is self-explanatory; this kind of test was intended to show a person’s approach in different scenarios.
After answering all the 32 questions, we are tasked to check our own paper. There was a specific point per letter. By the way, there were only two choices; it’s either an A or B. You have to pick one in every number. The statements were somehow related to every one of us. Wherein, it seems to be both right. You have to choose between the two statements. After checking the answers, I got a score of 40. And that score falls in the Average Technopreneur, meaning, I have the potential in the field of technopreneurship.
Here is an excerpt taken form a standard personality test:
• You do your best to complete a task on time
YES/ NO
• You are strongly touched by the stories about people's troubles
YES /NO
• You are more interested in a general idea than in the details of its realization
YES /NO
• Strict observance of the established rules is likely to prevent a good outcome
YES/ NO
• Often you prefer to read a book than go to a party
YES/ NO
• You tend to rely on your experience rather than
on theoretical alternatives
YES/ NO
As you can see, there are only two choices in every statement. All you have to do is to choose the best answer that suits you. You may wonder the accuracy and validity of such test. But throughout time, personality tests have grown more and more refined, increasing the accuracy and validity of their results. A personality test is a great tool for any employer who wishes to get to know a potential employee better, before hiring them. And this test are interpreted by a specialized psychologist.
The personality test results can bring a lot of valuable information regarding the candidate. Fitting the candidate into a certain pattern or category is done by comparison, evaluating personal characteristics and comparing them against standardized results.
Did you happen to ask yourself, what are personality traits?
As I googled for the meaning of personality traits, I found out that:
Personality traits are intrinsic differences that remain stable throughout most of our life. They are the constant aspects of our individuality. And traits are distinguishing qualities or characteristics of a person. Traits are a readiness to think or act in a similar fashion in response to a variety of different stimuli or situations.
Moreover, personality traits can be interpreted as both positive and negative traits. For instance, being critical is one of your personal traits. This could be an edge if you are an editor of a magazine or any type of publishing company, or your job is a meat inspector. It would be a negative if you are a supervisor trying to gain rapport with an employee. In addition, knowing one’s personality traits will be a great help to them.
Thus, providing them the edge and the upperhand in many aspects in life, for example, if a person knows beforehand his traits, before he engages to life’s challenges, he can use it to turn the stacks away from him. He can manage to be more productive in his on way.
To sum it all, every person around us has their own personal traits. We use our traits consciously and subconsciously when it comes to problem solving and decision making. We tend to grab onto our traits just to accomplish something in our lives. And when it comes to technopreneurship, our good traits, matter most.
As I went over the internet, I found out that Allport and Odbert (1936, cited in Funder, 2001) found 17,953 words to describe the way people are psychologically different from each other for example: shy, trustworthy, laconic, phlegmatic, kind, conscientious, and anxious just to name a few in out of a thousand personality traits. All these words describe personality traits.
Trait approach tries to synthesize and formalize these traits in order to explain and predict human behaviour.
Underlying questions driving the trait approaches to personality include:
• What traits are basic/essential to our personality?
• How many traits are there?
• How do we find out our traits?
As we go over with our everyday lives, we tend to understand much better our personality traits. And if not, we can always find help. Help not only encourages us to know ourselves better but also to enhance our skills and pinpoint our good traits that will help to uplift our lives, and be a good and wise technopreneur someday.
However the whole issue of whether a trait exists in all people to a greater or lesser degree is complicated by different views of the trait perspective.
There are two different views as to whether all traits exist in all people, first is idiographic: people have unique personality structures; thus some traits are more important in understanding the structure of some people than others. The Idiographic view emphasizes that each person has a unique psychological structure and that some traits are possessed by only one person; and that there are times when it is impossible to compare one person with others. This viewpoint also emphasizes that traits may differ in importance from person to person (cardinal, central and secondary traits). It tends to use case studies, bibliographical information, diaries etc for information gathering.
Next is nomothetic: people's unique personalities can be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistently across people. The Nomothetic view, on the other hand, emphasizes comparability among individuals but sees people as unique in their combination of traits. This viewpoint sees traits as having the same psychological meaning in everyone. The belief is that people differ only in the amount of each trait. It is this which constitutes their uniqueness. This approach tends to use self-report personality questions, factor analysis etc. People differ in their positions along a continuum in the same set of traits.
Most contemporary psychologists tend towards a nomothetic approach (and the trait approach is often viewed solely as a nomothetic approach these days), but they are aware of how a trait may be slightly different from person to person in the way that it is expressed.
In order for us student to find a career path that we will find both challenging and satisfying, we must first learn about ourself. The following questions are just a hint for us inorder to help us pinpoint our personality traits.
Here it goes:
* What do you like to do?
* What skills do you have?
* Which skills do you like to use?
* What kind of work setting fits best with your personality type?
* What is your personality type??
There are many ways to assess and to know ones personality traits. A good example to this is in the internet. One can surf to the internet to find one. However, if you would like a more in-depth self-understanding, it is recommended that you meet with a certain people who can provide you with “standardized assessments”. This comprises different tests that will help you to know yourself better, especially in finding and knowing your good personality traits that are relevant to you. With the guidance of this people, you can develop a profile of yourself, including your personality traits, good and bad.
The most common places to find this people are: College and University Career Centers, Community Agencies, Private Career Counselors and Instructors/facilitators.I’m pretty sure that this people can really help someone to find their good personality traits as well as the bad ones.
Are you interested in what you are doing in your life now? Or are you just enjoying your life to the extent that you forget to build and mold your future?.
Just because we are interested in something does not mean that we automatically are good at it. It's a known fact that we are most likely to excel at what we like to do. Think of things you have done in the past where you succeeded, take for example, you volunteered at the local high school, you wrote a poem that was published or you designed a computer program.
How does it feel to accomplish such task? Did it uplifted your morale and boosted your self-esteem? I bet yes.
Knowing our personal traits test result does not imply or show us how good and successful we will be as a technopreneur. There are more essential things that could affect your being as a technopreneur than taking the Personality Traits Tests. We need the skills as well as values inorder for us to succeed and blossom.
Think of anything that you do better than average. These are the skills you want inorder for you to have a stepping stone in technopreneurship.
Some examples might be: organizing and developing project or good writing skills and ability to remember details accurately
To be a technopreneur someday, we need the skills inorder for us to become successful. These skills are grouped into 2 different groups, the transferable skills and the nontransferable skills. Transferable skills are those skills that can be used in one job or another. Nontransferable skills are generally specific to a certain job or type of work. Let’s go deeper to this types of skills, shall we?
First on the list is the transferable skills, this skill is broken up into two categories worker skills and functional skills. These skills can be transferred from one job to another.
Look at everything you do in your life. Even skills developed in the home (budgeting) or hobbies (attention to details, organizing) can be “transferred" into a work setting.
1) Good worker skills allows you to be flexible to different jobs.
Example: Accepting responsibilities, Organized, Meeting deadlines
2) Functional skills are general skills useful in a variety of jobs.
Example: Analyzing data, Managing people, Operating machinery
All jobs utilize data, people and things, but most jobs emphasize one category over others. For example, computer system analysts work with data, counselors work with people and auto mechanics work with cars.
Next is the nontransferable skills, a good example to this kind of skill is the technical skill, it may or may not be used in other settings. Technical skills apply to a specific job or occupation. Take for example: Drawing is for cartoonist, Teeth cleaning is to dental hygienist and Sewing is to tailor.
Aside from acquiring skills, we need also values. Identifying your values is one of the most important factors in considering your career choices. Vital questions that need to be explored include: Do my values match my interest?, Do my values match the work involved in a particular career?
Often times people are disappointed when they find their chosen career does not match with their values. For instance, the career may involve long hours (no family time) or does not pay a large salary (no out of town vacations).
There two kinds of values explored here: Work Values and Personal Values. Work values deals with factors that you consider important to you on the job.
Often, you may wonder what your personality type exactly is. Or, you may also wonder what the personality type of your co-workers, friends, or family is. The easiest way to determine this is to take a personality trait test. A personality trait test is a test that is designed to tell you exactly what type of a person you are, and often tells you what the advantages and disadvantages of your personality is. In addition, a personality trait test will also tell you personality types to avoid, which is useful for an emerging technopreneur.
Regardless of which personality trait test you decide to take, sharing the results (and challenging your friends and family to do the same) is half of the fun. Most of these tests can be quickly emailed (with a link to the test website), posted in a blog, or posted on your personal website. It is very important for everyone to know what type of person they are, and taking personality tests help you to understand yourself.
References:
http://www.personality-and-aptitude-career-tests.com/personality-trait-test.html
http://www.csun.edu/~sp20558/dis/discover.html
http://wilderdom.com/personality/L6-2PersonalityTraits.html
http://www.gotestgo.com/personality_test.html
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