personal traits test

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success." 
- Thomas J. Watson

            Did you ever fail? What did you do? Did you give up and stop what you’re doing after the said failure? Or you stand and search for something that makes that failure into success? We must not be afraid of failure; failure is part of human life. Failing does not mean that you are a loser. You must remember that if you fail it does not mean that you’re a failure. And failure does not mean that it is a disadvantage in your part. You must not think on its negative side but with the positive or advantage part of failing. From that failure you can gain lesson and use it as an experience. More mistakes more learning. Most people now who are gaining success or already success also experience failure in the past. They never give up. Think of a successful entrepreneur or a technopreneur. Do you think that they attain that success in their lives as what they are now? What they are now is what they are before. This is a big NO! of course they experience hardships before they gain that position or success now. Failing is part our life. We did not know all their experiences because we are not there, but mind it, there success is the product of their failure in the past. We cannot control all the things that might happen in time, whether it cab create a good outcome or not we must be ready for it. Maybe that someone is not successful now if he/ she did not experience failure. He/ she is not in his/ her position right now if he/ she doesn’t experience failure. Each one of us can make this failure into success, transform it, instead of blaming your self or other people use as a tool to make your failure as success. As a famous quote says, “Failure is a key to success”. You know sometimes it is good to failed because we can learn lesson from it, but remember that, use it as a tool for gaining experienced, not by repeating your mistakes all over again. All things have limitations and we must be aware of that.  Since it said that go ahead and make mistakes it does not mean that all the time you make mistake. All the time of your life you make mistake because it is said that you will be able to gain success if you fail and make it as many as you can. Really failure is a key to success. This is not an easy thing to do but if you do it the result is worth doing it. You need to learn the right way of planning your tasks and goals, how to focus on them, how to avoid interruptions in order for you to make that failure become success. Learn from it is the key word in all failures.

            What does success means? Or shall I we say how can we measure success? Does it mean that having much money is enough to be called a successful one? Then what would be the basis to be one of the successful technopreneurship in the world? True success can attain by doing the necessary action that would help you in acquiring your goal. Each one of us has goal that must be able to achieve in order for us to be satisfied. Every person works for something that will give him/ her happiness and satisfaction. Knowing what you want is not always easy, but setting a goal to get what you want can help. So example if your goal is to pass a certain subject, then you would simply study and comply with all the requirements of the subject. But as like what I have said knowing what you want is not as easy as you thought. It depends on your goal that you want to achieve. As a technopreneur our primary goal is to become a successful technopreneur. But this thing is not easy to achieve, we must go to different and difficult obstacles to achieve this kind of goal. Sometimes we cannot prevent giving up or having the point of giving up our dream. So if you don’t have this what we call determination in one’s self it is better for you to quit it before engaging too much time then at the end of the road you will stop it. It is necessary for us to be passionate on what we are doing. Becoming a successful technopreneur is like you are at the center of a war. It is very difficult, small actions and doing unnecessary actions will bring us to a situation that we don’t want to happen and the worst is it will bring us to death. Like in technopreneurship having wrong moves in a business will really bring a technopreneur down in his/ her carrier. So it is necessary that every action that must be taken will first have to get a long thinking before doing such actions. Example, as a college student it is very hard for us to take or do some actions that might cause us some regrets in time because of doing such actions rashly. Like in taking the course it is necessary that the one you take is the field which you’re interest is big. b‘Cause time will really come that you will not be satisfied with it. This is a waste of time. Time is gold. We must be careful in all our actions. THINK!!! THINK!!! THINK!!!

            We cannot prevent criticisms from other people, sometimes it comes from all sides, we heard from them that it is foolish to be a dreamer and that our ideas were impractical, stupid, naïve, or foolish that you are not capable of doing such thing, you are not going to be successful because it is you, you alone, you don’t have money and other resources then you will not succeed. Putting our dreams down is just a trial that we must go through. This things are common in doing all things even it is simple, we cannot avoid this things to happen because there are really people that do not believe in one’s capability. There role is to put you down and put your dreams down. But in spite of this, you can use these things to pursue your goals in life, show to them what you can actually do, and what you are going to do, proving to them that they are not right in judging you right away without knowing you first especially your capability of doing it.

            In our meeting in Technopreneurship last August 14, 2010 that was Saturday we took a personality traits test that was given by our instructor Mr. Gamboa in order for us to know our status in the said field. There are 32 given questions all this questions can only be answered by the letters a or b. In this question there is no wrong answer, it is based on what you are. In taking the said test you must not rely on others but only to your self, it is all about you, your trait in every situation of the problem. You don’t need to copy to your seatmate or with others because it is a personal test it must be you! The score depends on the skill trait of the person who is taking the said test.  If your score is from 0 -25 it means not entrepreneurial, 26-26 is neutral, 37-47 is somewhat entrepreneurial, and 48 above is very entrepreneurial. This personality traits test lets us know and identify if technopreneurial is in our side. In the Personality Traits Test my score is the range of 37-47 so I am somewhat entrepreneurial. The majority of the class got the same range somewhat entrepreneurial and only one in the class got the score of 48 above that means he is very entrepreneurial since the one who got the score is a boy and I think he came from the Day Class of Technopreneurship. This simply means that each one of us has the capability of being an entrepreneur or specifically technopreneur, this capability will enhance if we have the traits that must have to be a successful technopreneur. There are differences between individuals. Each of us has a trait that we are known for, that we are remarkable and someone knows us because of that trait. Personality trait test I used to examined what people are like especially regarding with its personality. It is also aims to develop an understanding of the nature of those differences. Personality as defined it the set of characteristics possessed by an individual. We have different characteristics and traits because each one of us is unique in many different ways and one of these is by the characteristics, each individual behaves according to some patterns in such situations.

            There is no formula to success but you can be successful in many different ways. And one of it is by acquiring the basic or the important traits to be successful, there is no such assurance in gaining success, it depends on the doer of the trait if he/ she does it well and have the will to do all the things that must be done even it is so hard, all this things is part of it. As I’ve said there are no fixed traits but these traits can be our guide and examined ourselves which we belong. This is called “The Big Five Personality Factors”. The first one is the Extraversion / Surgency which includes the characteristics that are Talkative, extroverted, aggressive, verbal, sociable, bold, assertive, social, unrestrained, and confident. It is usually known for being engaged in the external world which they are open and easily motivated by the outside world, usually they act first before they think and after it is the time to reflect on what they have done. The second one is the Agreeableness is characterized by sympathetic, kind, understanding, soft-hearted, helpful, amiable, coactive, trustful, and caring. They are known to have an optimistic view of human nature. They believe thought that all people are trustworthy, honest and so on which is what they want is just a peaceful environment and place. The third is Conscientiousness that systematic, efficient, responsible, precise, practical, and dependable. All things are planned because they aim to achieve. The fourth is the Emotional Stability relaxed, unexcitable, patient, undemanding, imperturbable, and optimistic. In other words they are just calm on the things that would happen. And the last one is really an important thing which is the intellect in which they are creative, intellectual, imaginative, artistic, complex, inventive, intelligent, and innovative. Intellect is one of man’s greatest powers. It cannot be stolen by anyone. It is the power of the mind by which one knows and perceives it. These five factors are just a guide for us to know whether which we belong. Are we part in the first? Second? Third? Fourth? Or at last one? The personality test shows us that if we want to be a technopreneur someday, these steps are just the beginning stage of knowing our selves, whether we are capable of handling this not so easy carrier. If you really want to pursue your goal you must first know your self and take the personality traits test which is one of the many ways to see whether you are fit in that kind of work. But to attain that you must do all the necessary actions in order for you to succeed. Aim high! Dream big! You need to have a clear vision on what you want for you to start doing what you want to do. Use your traits to follow your goals, we are created individually different so we must use our uniqueness to pursue all the things that can make us a better person.