Personal Trait (ENTREPRENEURIAL)

What kind of individual are you?

      Its always been enjoying on my part taking several test. I so like it every time I get my self measured until what can I do and to where can I still go.I love to take several test. In fact, I before sending myself to this university, I also took other admission test and scholarship grants and fortunately got and passes all of it. Well, those where just justifications about me loving the fact of being tested. I just don't know if what other people feel about it. Just like any other test, personal trait is another form of measuring and evaluating ourselves. This serves as tool of evaluating our capacity and ability to handle a situation when it talks about entrepreneurship. Now the question is: Am I in line or not? can I still have the possibility to be one?

      Just last wednesday, July 28, 2010, I was given a chance of evaluating myself again and this time it is through a personal trait. A test that would measure my capability and percentage of my ability in becoming an entrepreneur. By just being true to my self, I am really not into business or any form of entrepreneur I am thinking that engaging into this business could be a tedious stuff to do, risky thus saying that it is of no assurance. That is why I am not sure to myself that I could have the probability of passing the test. It was what I thought but it turned out to be something different to what I expected. Something that somehow lifted my feeling and made me awakened of the fact that I could be better to what I am usually thinking.How you see yourself and how others see you may be quite different. Thats the reason why its hard to be objective about oneself and limiting our selves to what more else could we possibly do. Aside from doubting to myself, I
also frequently asked myself of how do these test is being promulgated that it could really have a result that reflects to our own personality. Aside from personality test, there are also several other type of test which also reflects our own identity. So I could say that having answered the test is really not a joke and it definitely make sense. It is based on tried and tested principles, and had made well by a renowned Professor of human psychology.


      Well, as I am answering the test, it went so out so well and just flow the way a normal test do. Funny it may be but I used to think that I could not relate myself to the test due to my background and to the way I think. But, the test was just so cool! I enjoyed answering all of it since most of the questions ask for a scenario
of talking to someone or to a friend. It generally talks on how an individual interact to another and of how an individual make decisions and being like me, having sanguine type of personality, is not a tough thing to do. Talking is my passion specially having a pep talk. I want it and like it specially that I love having a quality time to some one. I can relate to all of this and assuredly answered it right and correct. Then, taDDdaadda...as fast as a blink of an eye can do, we already had our test result! By summing it up I ended having an over all score of 44 points and I could see that most of us got a score ranging from 38-46's. Before our professor handed us the interpretation of our results, I could already see the his bright smile. Then, unexpectedly, all of us got the result of 2nd to the highest. Our result was "Somewhat entrepreneurial". I guess that none of us falls on the category of the lowest one. Of course, why would we have? We are the best and we have nothing but
only the best! If only you know that as I am encoding every letter of this reflection, I cant help but laugh but I swear that I believe to what I am giving special point. We believe that we are the best, the giants of the university, the endangered species, the skilled and talented group of students. Yet, after all of this description
given to us by our teacher and proved by the guidance office, it still bugles my mind of why are we still in an irregular status. During my freshmen years, I used to ask if is it the subject that is to difficult or its just us that are just too dull for the subject. Now, I had an answer to it and is very much satisfied to what I found. Back to the topic of still becoming an irregular student, well, I had also figured out the answer and one of it is by having a faculty or shall i say a den of great lions??? (laugh out loud) The terminators lived in our college and I am very much proud of it!


      Having taken this kind of test, it makes me realize few different things yet so meaningful and important. I learned that not all things may end up the way we think. Not at all times and even could not control every situation. Secondly, I learned and awakened by the thought that I am growing up not just physically but more preferably in growing in spirit and to the way I think. During times like this, I am always stucked in my mind set way back when I was still in high  school where what I think was just too shallow and dry. I always forgot that I already got a new me, a new Dianne with a whole brand new and upgraded personality. Through the upgraded version of me, I can say that it is my edge among any other persons. I believe that I,as a socializer and pretty knows how to handle and  deal with people will surely excel in the field of technopreneurship. In connection with it, with the help of Mr. Google, I too find some other significant factors or traits when it talks about personality.Covering the areas of Introversion/Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Determinism, Sexuality and Social & Political Attitudes, it will help you see yourself - your mental, emotional and behavioral strengths and weaknesses - in a more objective light. It is an ideal starting point for personal development.
This factors provide the tools for a wide-ranging analysis of our personality, so we can know ourself better. This
includes:

1. Openness - Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience.

* It speaks about being inventive, curious with consistentency and becoming aware of some cautions.Basing it with my prevous experiences,
I could attest that I too had once became a leader. And in becoming such, it is also a prerequisite to be open minded. Openness is the key to understanding
and in having a harmonious form of living. Through this we can have a good relationship among individual thus maintaning a good man power when it comes to business.
Other than that, openness also invites more doors of having more ideas and plans that would probably raise the entrepreneur or could alleviate the suffarage of
any given business. When we have this factor we are open to the possibility of thinking out of the box therefore providing us an unusual ideas.
In a venture like technopreneurship, everything is changing and evolving. So, it is a significant factor to consider if we are to enter this journey cause I
believe that it is only through openness that we can be able to adapt more ideas either from us or from people around us. Life is an ever changing color wheel
and it depends on the brightness or darkness of the color that we will experience.



2. Conscientiousness – A tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned
rather than spontaneous behavior.

 * This factor refers to being efficient, organized rather than easy-going and careless. In relevance to the above statement,being disciplined and responsible to ones task is important. Nothing will happen and nothing will be done if we are just to demand and demand. For us to be successful, we should learn to talk less but say more. Aside from it, as a technopreneur we should also have the value of "pagkukusa". Its like, WALKING THE TALK. Do more and strive for the best since its a close to close battle. The arena is changing and we are setting into different kind of environment thus being hard working in adapting  to these changes is vital and plays and important role. Else, if we would just let things pass by with out coping up to this situation all that we would have is the possibility of being left beside the corner and be one or listed to those who will be considered as losers.



3.Extraversion – Energy, positive emotions, surgency, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.

 *Having with so much zest we should also contain the characteristics of becoming outgoing ,energetic,not to become shy and reserved. As it is being stated, if we are to join the heated competition in technopreneurship we should not left our selves empty and reserved. We should be aggressive and always on the go. Chances comes only once as well as opportunity. If we had failure before, we could still however rise and pick ourselves. Always maintain a good disposition in life and always seek hope and keep the faith burning.That is why, one of the things I also realize in becoming a great technopreneur is to have a good emotional condition. Be energetic, be happy and be positive!


4.Agreeableness –A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious
and antagonistic towards others.

*In connection with the third factor, Extraversion which needs to be energetic, the fourth trait must also be
 friendly, compassionate, competitive and outspoken. This factor really strikes me. Oftentimes before, whenever there would be someone that will talk or share something in front, I used to have a question with in me if he or she is true to what he or she is saying. When ever there would be an unusual idea that I get from a speaker I then formulate a question ending up puzzled by my own faults and left hanging. It is then late that I will know that those questions where already answered. Its just that I am not able to listen at it because of my stupidity. But it was just before and I already learned my lesson. To be an excellent technopreneur I believe that being cooperative and trusting your colleagues in the venture is as well as important as we would have to believe in our own capabilities. We should all learn not to be antagonistic towards others. We may never know, they might have better ideas than we do or better from people whom we expect to have one. Remember:" Thou shall not judge a person. Thou shall not!!!".




5. Neuroticism –A tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression,
or vulnerability.

 *Being prone to competition, an entrepreneur must be sensitive and vigilant in his own standing. Nonetheless, he or she might lost the whole business. Though handed by this situation, he or she must maintain the serene feeling, be confident and feels his or her own security. Having read this characteristic, I was being fascinated. Yes! Why? Its all because I wanted to have it. When ever i would ask the question: "How will you remember me?" Most of my classmates, be it in high school or even now in college would say that I am "pikon". Although how hard would I say that I am not, still I could  not argue with them since it is them who are experiencing it with me. But actually, if what they consider as pikon is due to my facial expression, well its not true.
 Its just that I look strict and not approachable. But to tell you, I could be that some one to talk to and could lean on. I swear that I am understanding but however also got some unpleasant emotions but not as fast as others do. But, nonetheless, I would love to have this factor so I not to be vulnerable from
this form of negative emotions.


      These are the factors of having a good personal trait be it in a real life or in a business venture. I believe in it and even researched also attested it to be true and of real significance. I just hope to have it and keep it in me as I am to enter the venture of technopreneur. I know that everything will be  settled and will turn out right in God's perfect time and plan.

      Just like the smile our professor had, I also unnoticeably painted mine also. After all the words of encouragement that he had been giving us, I did not have a doubt of becoming proud of my self. Shall we say that I am not into entrepreneur but I could still be one. I have the possibility and quality of becoming
one so why suppress it? It seem to boastful but its not. I am really just inspired of the things beeing taught to me and makes me awakened of some serious stufff. Yes, I know and believe of this test and I now that me and my classmates could really go further and go beyond.

      If we would just not limit ourselves and cross the frontier, everything is possible. Now I know that everything is possible if we would just believe. There had been a lot of things happened this week aside from this test. An individual should not stop believing and should not doubt ones self for we, our own identity and personality is the cream of the crop where we are in, the ice cream in a halo-halo and the red cherry in the salad!!!