I read about Steve Jobs’ speech that he delivered at Stanford University in 2005 for the graduation commencement. In his speech, Steve recounts three important personal stories in which he had learned essential things that have led him to his success and failures.
After reading Steve Jobs’ outstanding Stanford Commencement speech, I found his words and stories to be very inspirational and motivational. I can somehow relate myself and my story with all his realization about the things that had happened in his life.
Since Steve Jobs have sited three important personal stories about his life in his speech, I have also decided to site different reflections with each story.
“The first story is about connecting the dots.”
“ …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. ”
– Steve Jobs.
What Steve Jobs said was true. Everything that happens in our lives happens for a reason. Every thing in this world is interconnected with each other. Relating this to Steve Jobs’ story, he had realized that dropping out from college has given him the opportunity to study and learn calligraphy.
“ Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying amount of the space between different combinations, about what makes a great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found fascinating. ”
He had not realized the importance of calligraphy in his life. Not until such time when they were designing the Macintosh computer. “ …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. ”
It may sound coincidental, but I would rather believe that it was fate. It was all meant to happen.
God does not want us to suffer. He only does things that are quite different and hard for us to understand ( at first ). But if we will just try to understand God’s ways, it does not matter whether we are having good or bad experiences; then, we will be able to appreciate our lives’ worth even more.
“ …I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. ”
Currently, I am experiencing the same thing as what Steve had experienced before when he was in college. I am still searching for the things that I wanted to do with my life. And as of now, studying for college thingy does not help. And I think it will never help me find the things that I wanted to do with my life. But I will never stop looking; I will find it one way or another.
“My second story is all about love and loss”
The second story was all about how he was able to handle the failure and rejection that he had got from the company which he founded. He also emphasized about the importance of finding the things that we love
“ …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 had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. ”
not rejection be a hindrance to doing the things that we really love. Though we may experience failure, we must choose giving up as an option.
“ 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 of my life. ”
With Steve’s statement, we can see how he had realized the positive side of failure. Steve also said from his speech that “ It was an awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it ”. The medicine that he was referring to was his failure and he was the patient.
After he had experienced the taste of fame and fortune, he became a monster who slowly tortures his own dominions. And he needed that “ medicine ” to make him realize that he was becoming very sick because he was not able to handle success the right way. But because he had already found his love, and he had too much love for Apple, he was able to rise and make his way back to his success had started.
“My third story is all about death”
This time, the story was all about how he had fought cancer and his realizations about how important time is.
“ 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. ” After reading and reflecting from this statement of Steve’s speech, I have realized that I was too scared of making mistakes. I was using too much of thinking, that I almost forgot about my heart’s desire. I was always thinking of what others want me to say and do, that I stopped considering my own happiness. I was too scared of loosing something or someone if I was going to choose my happiness than them. Maybe, too much of something will not do any good to us.
“ Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ”
Sometimes we tend to idolize a person too much that we wanted to live the same life as theirs. Let us find our purpose and happiness. By doing such, we will be able to find contentment among ourselves.
“ …death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
It is true that death is inevitable. That is why we must find what we love to do, then do the things that we love. Life is short; let us not make it shorter.
We must not let our bad experiences and failures pull us down. Rather, we must take it as a compliment from God. He has chosen us to face different life challenges to help us grow and be a better person. Because God knows we can surpass everything as long as we have faith in Him. We must also learn to be contented of the things that God has given us. Because He only gives us what we truly deserve.
God has us only one life to live, so we must live it to the fullest.
Live, Love, and Laugh, these may seem very simple but these three are very essential to life. These are the things that we often forget or take for granted. So let us continue living, loving, and laughing. God bless us all.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Reflection: My Personality Traits Test Result
My reflection:
I am very fond of taking different personality test and traits test via online and / or in books and magazines. I took these kind tests not only because it is fun but also I wanted to fully understand myself. A while ago, I took the Personality traits test together with the Evening students because we were not able to take the exam with the day class. This test also serves as our preliminary examination.
For each item on the test, two opposite scenarios were given and we have to choose which scenario or situation would likely describe you best. As far as I could remember, in most of the items in that particular test, the options that we have to choose were to gain money and improve ourselves or to gain friends and improve our personal relationship with them. I wanted to gain more money and at the same time, gain more friends. But in this situation, I really have to choose between the two. It was hard to choose between the two options, because they both give equal impact for a technopreneur.
At first, my reason for taking the Personality Traits test was because it is required since it serves as our preliminary examination and it is needed to answer the assignment given by our facilitator. The personality traits test, as what Mr. Randy said, is part of our self mastery. After that, I have realized that taking the Personal traits test is very important. Since knowing oneself first will help us improve ourselves as a technopreneur.
The Personality Traits Test attempts to establish your personality profile as a technopreneur based on the tendencies that guide your behavior and relationships with others. But prior to the examination, Mr. Randy told us to answer the Personality test HONESTLY. If we fail to answer it honestly, then it would only mean that we are fooling others and most especially ourselves.
How you see yourself and how others see you may be quite different. A personality trait test is a test that was designed to tell us what type of a person we are, and often tells us what the advantages and disadvantages of our personality is. It aims to describe the aspects of a person's character that remain stable throughout that person's lifetime, the individual's character pattern of behavior, thoughts, and feelings. In addition, a personality trait test will also tell you personality types to avoid, which is useful for dating purposes. Understanding personality is also the key to unlocking elusive human qualities, for example leadership, motivation, and empathy, whether your purpose is self-development, helping others, or any other field relating to people and how we behave.
Understanding personality - of your self and others - is central to motivation. Different people have different strengths and needs. You do too. The more you understand about personality, the better able you are to judge what motivates people - and yourself. The more you understand about your own personality and that of other people, the better able you are to realize how others perceive you, and how they react to your own personality and style. The idea of taking the Personality traits test is to expose fixed and conditioned ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. This does not indicate that any particular way is right or better than another.
Personality tests can be hugely beneficial in improving knowledge of self and other people. It helps us pinpoint and eliminate our weak points. It could also help improve our motivations, strength, preferred thinking and working styles, and also strengths and preferred styles for communications, learning, management, being managed, and team-working. The idea is to expose fixed and conditioned ways of thinking, feeling and behaving, not to indicate that any particular way is right or better than another. The questions can expose ways in which we are a stereotyped product of your culture, more liberated than the norm or more neurotic than the norm, or just different. The interpretation is up to us, the more we answer the items honestly the better.
I have answered each item honestly. I chose the option which I think was right or what would make me happy. The examination was quite easy since we do not need to study technopreneurship or general knowledge to answer the thirty two item Personality traits test. The Personality traits test was not like the other test that I have taken before. Not like the Intelligence Quotient test or the Emotional Quotient test or the Adversity Quotient test because each item has only two options and there was no specific situation on which one must have to decide which path one wants to take. We only have to rely on our first impression and go at our own pace. After answering all the thirty two items in the Personality traits test, Mr. Randy gave us the chance to check our own papers. He showed us how to score each item. The scoring in each item were only zero, one, or two. Since the exam does not need any background of any technopreneurial knowledge or any general knowledge for as long as one knows what he or she wanted, therefore, nobody will fail in the preliminary exam in Technopreneurship!(Hurray!)
I scored forty one in the personality traits test. This corresponds to the description of “Somewhat Technopreneurial”. I got shocked with the result because until now, I am still on the stage of looking for myself. What do I love to do? What do I want to do with my life? What is my purpose of living? I wanted to believe that being a technopreneur will be my future career path. Considering that there are more pros than cons in taking technopreneurship as a career gives me more inspiration and motivation to take the same career path as those successful people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took. But, the problem is, is this what I really wanted to do? I do not want to be successful in something I do not have any interest because in the end, I would not find the happiness or satisfaction with the things that I do. Maybe there are other things that could help me decide what I really wanted to do with my life that this personality traits test cannot give.
Taking any kind of personality test or personality traits test, or even the “ Big Five ” personality traits test will not give us a hundred percent of assurance that they will give a very accurate and precise result and description of our own personality. Because these kind of tests only attempts or tries to describe the personality the one who takes the test with the aid of the theories and researches of the psychologists. We are the right person to settle moral issues. However, following statements are admitted facts according to what I have researched with the aid of the internet and Google:
1.) Personality Tests or any test that tries to describe the personality of the ones who take these tests are not perfect tools to analyze all your personality. Even the most reliable companies agree that they fail in 30% cases to find out the right personalities for right jobs.
2.) The well prepared candidates are getting better ‘scoring’ and more chances to be selected for a particular job.
3.) The personality is still a vague psychological concept. Since our personality is gradually changing, given that perhaps half our personality is determined by influences acting upon us after we are conceived and born, it's interesting and significant also that no-one actually knows the extent to which personality changes over time. Therefore, nobody has the power to neither describe nor define our personality. Only God can only define and describe our personality since He is our creator.
3.) The personality may be a unity but you continue to develop your traits throughout your life. If you are introvert, proper information and practice can make you introvert. And...
4.) No career personality test or personality traits tests can measure your all out personality traits.
We must not take the results as if this was the real you. I do not have doubts with the result, but I have doubts with how they constructed the test to describe our personality as a technopreneur. No personality traits test is not nearly powerful in predicting and explaining the actual behavior of the test taker. As what has been stated above, our personalities are still a vague psychological concept. The test result does not give us our future career as if the test was a soothsayer. It only serves as a guideline. Perhaps we might learn some lessons, decide to do something about what you find, or be happy you are the way you are. Therefore, we must not rely on the results of the test nor take it negatively.
There are more things to consider than relying solely on the results of the test. We all believe that “ actions speak louder than words ” , while taking the exam, we might have been too pretentious and playing safe that makes the result more inaccurate. Or the solemnity of the place, while taking the exam, I find it hard to concentrate in answering because the other students were reading loudly the options of each item. While we were taking the exam, I was never bothered by the time pressure.
The test also shows our weak points as a technopreneur, as a person, and in handling our relationship with others. Therefore, we must do something to enhance and improve our personalities to be a better person. With a result of “ Somewhat technopreneurial ”, therefore shows that there are still flaws in my personality as a technopreneur. As of now, I could see that I am not a very competent candidate as a technopreneur. At least there are still rooms for improvement. Although improving thyself to be a good technopreneur might take more time and more efforts might be sacrificed, but the important things are the experiences and the lessons that I will learn while trying to improve.
The options in each test items were just an example of some scenario that we will be experiencing in the near future as a promising technopreneur. There are still a lot of undesirable situations that we might experience in the real world. All we need to do is to prepare ourselves for the worst and enjoy the things that we are experiencing and going to experience in the future.
After taking the Personality traits test, I have realized that there are a lot of things where we need to make decisions, the scenario may seem very simple but the consequences that lie behind it might complicate a situation. For example, if we have to choose between improving yourself or your own happiness. Which is more important? How would it affect me or the people that surrounds me? Even though the consequences were not given in the test, I was always thinking about it while answering each item. I was trying to understand what was more important to me:
- having fun or taking life seriously?
- Work or my social life?
I answered each item honestly and I wanted both options but as they say, there is no such thing is neutral. Most of my answers might not be the right thing to do but at least it was what I wanted to do. Not all things that we wanted to do are also the right thing. In the real world, making wrong decisions will lead us to our sweetest downfall. Therefore, we must think twice or several times before making any decisions.
I find it very fun taking this test even though I was not able to get a very high score. For me, the test result does not matter anymore because but what is more important is that I was able to understand myself not by the results of the test, but by how I answered the test.
Reference:
http://www.personality-and-aptitude-career-tests.com/personality-career-tests.html
I am very fond of taking different personality test and traits test via online and / or in books and magazines. I took these kind tests not only because it is fun but also I wanted to fully understand myself. A while ago, I took the Personality traits test together with the Evening students because we were not able to take the exam with the day class. This test also serves as our preliminary examination.
For each item on the test, two opposite scenarios were given and we have to choose which scenario or situation would likely describe you best. As far as I could remember, in most of the items in that particular test, the options that we have to choose were to gain money and improve ourselves or to gain friends and improve our personal relationship with them. I wanted to gain more money and at the same time, gain more friends. But in this situation, I really have to choose between the two. It was hard to choose between the two options, because they both give equal impact for a technopreneur.
At first, my reason for taking the Personality Traits test was because it is required since it serves as our preliminary examination and it is needed to answer the assignment given by our facilitator. The personality traits test, as what Mr. Randy said, is part of our self mastery. After that, I have realized that taking the Personal traits test is very important. Since knowing oneself first will help us improve ourselves as a technopreneur.
The Personality Traits Test attempts to establish your personality profile as a technopreneur based on the tendencies that guide your behavior and relationships with others. But prior to the examination, Mr. Randy told us to answer the Personality test HONESTLY. If we fail to answer it honestly, then it would only mean that we are fooling others and most especially ourselves.
How you see yourself and how others see you may be quite different. A personality trait test is a test that was designed to tell us what type of a person we are, and often tells us what the advantages and disadvantages of our personality is. It aims to describe the aspects of a person's character that remain stable throughout that person's lifetime, the individual's character pattern of behavior, thoughts, and feelings. In addition, a personality trait test will also tell you personality types to avoid, which is useful for dating purposes. Understanding personality is also the key to unlocking elusive human qualities, for example leadership, motivation, and empathy, whether your purpose is self-development, helping others, or any other field relating to people and how we behave.
Understanding personality - of your self and others - is central to motivation. Different people have different strengths and needs. You do too. The more you understand about personality, the better able you are to judge what motivates people - and yourself. The more you understand about your own personality and that of other people, the better able you are to realize how others perceive you, and how they react to your own personality and style. The idea of taking the Personality traits test is to expose fixed and conditioned ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. This does not indicate that any particular way is right or better than another.
Personality tests can be hugely beneficial in improving knowledge of self and other people. It helps us pinpoint and eliminate our weak points. It could also help improve our motivations, strength, preferred thinking and working styles, and also strengths and preferred styles for communications, learning, management, being managed, and team-working. The idea is to expose fixed and conditioned ways of thinking, feeling and behaving, not to indicate that any particular way is right or better than another. The questions can expose ways in which we are a stereotyped product of your culture, more liberated than the norm or more neurotic than the norm, or just different. The interpretation is up to us, the more we answer the items honestly the better.
I have answered each item honestly. I chose the option which I think was right or what would make me happy. The examination was quite easy since we do not need to study technopreneurship or general knowledge to answer the thirty two item Personality traits test. The Personality traits test was not like the other test that I have taken before. Not like the Intelligence Quotient test or the Emotional Quotient test or the Adversity Quotient test because each item has only two options and there was no specific situation on which one must have to decide which path one wants to take. We only have to rely on our first impression and go at our own pace. After answering all the thirty two items in the Personality traits test, Mr. Randy gave us the chance to check our own papers. He showed us how to score each item. The scoring in each item were only zero, one, or two. Since the exam does not need any background of any technopreneurial knowledge or any general knowledge for as long as one knows what he or she wanted, therefore, nobody will fail in the preliminary exam in Technopreneurship!(Hurray!)
I scored forty one in the personality traits test. This corresponds to the description of “Somewhat Technopreneurial”. I got shocked with the result because until now, I am still on the stage of looking for myself. What do I love to do? What do I want to do with my life? What is my purpose of living? I wanted to believe that being a technopreneur will be my future career path. Considering that there are more pros than cons in taking technopreneurship as a career gives me more inspiration and motivation to take the same career path as those successful people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took. But, the problem is, is this what I really wanted to do? I do not want to be successful in something I do not have any interest because in the end, I would not find the happiness or satisfaction with the things that I do. Maybe there are other things that could help me decide what I really wanted to do with my life that this personality traits test cannot give.
Taking any kind of personality test or personality traits test, or even the “ Big Five ” personality traits test will not give us a hundred percent of assurance that they will give a very accurate and precise result and description of our own personality. Because these kind of tests only attempts or tries to describe the personality the one who takes the test with the aid of the theories and researches of the psychologists. We are the right person to settle moral issues. However, following statements are admitted facts according to what I have researched with the aid of the internet and Google:
1.) Personality Tests or any test that tries to describe the personality of the ones who take these tests are not perfect tools to analyze all your personality. Even the most reliable companies agree that they fail in 30% cases to find out the right personalities for right jobs.
2.) The well prepared candidates are getting better ‘scoring’ and more chances to be selected for a particular job.
3.) The personality is still a vague psychological concept. Since our personality is gradually changing, given that perhaps half our personality is determined by influences acting upon us after we are conceived and born, it's interesting and significant also that no-one actually knows the extent to which personality changes over time. Therefore, nobody has the power to neither describe nor define our personality. Only God can only define and describe our personality since He is our creator.
3.) The personality may be a unity but you continue to develop your traits throughout your life. If you are introvert, proper information and practice can make you introvert. And...
4.) No career personality test or personality traits tests can measure your all out personality traits.
We must not take the results as if this was the real you. I do not have doubts with the result, but I have doubts with how they constructed the test to describe our personality as a technopreneur. No personality traits test is not nearly powerful in predicting and explaining the actual behavior of the test taker. As what has been stated above, our personalities are still a vague psychological concept. The test result does not give us our future career as if the test was a soothsayer. It only serves as a guideline. Perhaps we might learn some lessons, decide to do something about what you find, or be happy you are the way you are. Therefore, we must not rely on the results of the test nor take it negatively.
There are more things to consider than relying solely on the results of the test. We all believe that “ actions speak louder than words ” , while taking the exam, we might have been too pretentious and playing safe that makes the result more inaccurate. Or the solemnity of the place, while taking the exam, I find it hard to concentrate in answering because the other students were reading loudly the options of each item. While we were taking the exam, I was never bothered by the time pressure.
The test also shows our weak points as a technopreneur, as a person, and in handling our relationship with others. Therefore, we must do something to enhance and improve our personalities to be a better person. With a result of “ Somewhat technopreneurial ”, therefore shows that there are still flaws in my personality as a technopreneur. As of now, I could see that I am not a very competent candidate as a technopreneur. At least there are still rooms for improvement. Although improving thyself to be a good technopreneur might take more time and more efforts might be sacrificed, but the important things are the experiences and the lessons that I will learn while trying to improve.
The options in each test items were just an example of some scenario that we will be experiencing in the near future as a promising technopreneur. There are still a lot of undesirable situations that we might experience in the real world. All we need to do is to prepare ourselves for the worst and enjoy the things that we are experiencing and going to experience in the future.
After taking the Personality traits test, I have realized that there are a lot of things where we need to make decisions, the scenario may seem very simple but the consequences that lie behind it might complicate a situation. For example, if we have to choose between improving yourself or your own happiness. Which is more important? How would it affect me or the people that surrounds me? Even though the consequences were not given in the test, I was always thinking about it while answering each item. I was trying to understand what was more important to me:
- having fun or taking life seriously?
- Work or my social life?
I answered each item honestly and I wanted both options but as they say, there is no such thing is neutral. Most of my answers might not be the right thing to do but at least it was what I wanted to do. Not all things that we wanted to do are also the right thing. In the real world, making wrong decisions will lead us to our sweetest downfall. Therefore, we must think twice or several times before making any decisions.
I find it very fun taking this test even though I was not able to get a very high score. For me, the test result does not matter anymore because but what is more important is that I was able to understand myself not by the results of the test, but by how I answered the test.
Reference:
http://www.personality-and-aptitude-career-tests.com/personality-career-tests.html
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
ITelective to FTS
Today, we had a class for our Technopreneurship subject. But instead of discussing the lessons, Mr. Randy discussed about the misunderstandings about things for our field trip and seminars subject. He said that last Monday, which he said that we were absent, he had heard about the complaints and objections of the CS students. Most of the CS students were not satisfied by the results of the votes for the land arrangement. They do not agree about the trip to Baguio.
I also disagree about that matter since the trip to Baguio will waste our time and the said subject is not about leisure travels, this is supposedly an educational trip! The said agreement and land arrangement have to sacrifice our national seminar since we don't have enough time to conduct it.
I chose model A for the subject FTS because of the said promise of Mr. Randy that our time to conduct our OJT will be lessen if we are to choose model A. Now having a problem with the seminar made me think if I will persue or drop the subject. Luckily, Mr. Randy has a solution to this problem without extending our stay at Manila.
Now I don't have to think about dropping the subject! YAHOOOO!
I also disagree about that matter since the trip to Baguio will waste our time and the said subject is not about leisure travels, this is supposedly an educational trip! The said agreement and land arrangement have to sacrifice our national seminar since we don't have enough time to conduct it.
I chose model A for the subject FTS because of the said promise of Mr. Randy that our time to conduct our OJT will be lessen if we are to choose model A. Now having a problem with the seminar made me think if I will persue or drop the subject. Luckily, Mr. Randy has a solution to this problem without extending our stay at Manila.
Now I don't have to think about dropping the subject! YAHOOOO!
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