Episode X: Life Update and a Brief Study on Personality

It has become inherently clear that my blog needs to make a return. Let’s start with an update of this summer after leaving Princeton.

At the start of the summer, I took a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate my mother’s birthday. I’ve posted a couple of photos from the trip on my Instagram account. On the surface, it might seem like another rich kid enjoying luxurious things; however, I learned an important lesson in that short time period: stop worrying about things you cannot control.

Part of the reason why I started writing iSight is because I was worried about not being able to help other people with the things I’ve learned. On that trip, those questions went away. The revelation occurred when I played my best round of golf since before my senior year of college.

Golf questions occurred in my head while at school because I couldn’t play in the fall. Fortunately, senior spring of college provided some opportunities to play with other athletes. One of those people I consistently played with is a damn good basketball player who just grad transferred to another school. He and I played at least six times; I beat him the first time, but he beat me in each of the last five rounds. Why? 

Because I was questioning if I could beat him every round after the first one. My main thought when playing wasn’t even the game. It was questioning my own capabilities.

My mindset switched in Vegas. When you’re feeling it, you’re feeling it; one of those rounds was occurred where I could do no wrong. I was +2 through fifteen holes, on pace to beat my record (+4). Then, I started to question the score. I still ended up shooting +6, but recognized the difference in approach early in the summer and didn’t let it happen again.

The rest of my summer after Vegas was spent golfing. All summer long, I played consistently well. My peak round was shooting 75 (+3), and my average round out of 36 total legitimate rounds was an 84.2. Four rounds didn’t count because I took lie improvements on bad days. I played every course from the tips, no mulligans (if I took one, it added two stokes), no lie improvements, and no gimmes.

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Another facet of life I had to answer was career. Most of my friends had jobs that started while I was unemployed, and it ATE at me. With this first role, what really mattered?

Content creation was the first idea had at school with the end goal of helping people, but was it the only option I liked? 

Most certainly not. Venture capital, consulting, and startups were also enticing options.

Not getting a job immediately after graduation answered many questions. With the first role out of college, people in my sphere of influence took roles that paid the best. After speaking to them a month they started, I decided that salary was insignificant in my search because many were unhappy with their situation. So, my perspective changed.

I wanted to work in a role where I could learn as many different things as possible and fulfill all of my intellectual curiosities. I liked venture capital, content creation, consulting, and startups. Were there any roles where I could do all four?

Sure enough, there was. I found a solution for all four aspects of my career-based curiosities in Newchip. The Newchip Accelerator takes companies that are in need of help from all sorts of different stages, gets and provides them the help they need, and introduces them to venture capital firms. 

Part of my job is reaching out to investors on social media platforms. So, I can study social media algorithms in further depth along with understanding the different desires of founders, industries, and investors. Along with that, Newchip is remote; their business model was designed to be seamless for any person across the globe, and I certainly believe that their reach will exponentially grow in the very near future.

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When interviewing with Newchip, one significant portion of the process was taking a personality aptitude test. I had never taken one before, but was curious to understand more about the significance of who someone is in the workforce. Last week, one of my close friends mentioned the 16 Types Personality Test to me, the dots connected, and I have been fascinated ever since.

One aspect of humanity I didn’t consider enough was personality. There are intensely strong correlations between someone’s personality and how their brain functions. I’m gonna provide a link below for you to take it, and full explanations of each type are on the website.

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Here’s an example of why personalities can matter so much.

My close friend is a genius with a very different personality. While I primarily consider where people are emotionally at in relation to my goal, he takes a more objective stance following the same intuition. 

Let’s say that we are both selling t-shirts over the phone. We both have logical reasons as to why the customer should believe our clothing is better; we both come to the same reasoning necessary for the customer by instinct. However, he would use the thoughts and logic behind the product itself as the first step while I would emotionally appeal to the consumer as the first step. 

My example could be circumstantially understood as logic being necessary first or emotional appeal being necessary first to sell t-shirts effectively; however, because we are both intuitive, we would immediately sense the customer’s primary form of appeal. 

Thus, we are stating what would come first as a baseline with our personality: he appeals with logic while I appeal with emotion. Both of us are going to end up selling shirts well because we know what information is necessary to sell the clothes, but how we present the info is inherently different because of our contrasting personalities. 

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Overall, I’m very glad that I took some time to figure things out and step away from the screen. It feels amazing to have a clearer sense of purpose and direction, and I hope to create long-lasting value along the way.

As I gain new experiences, I’ll be able to cover more of what the eye can’t see. Shoot me a message with your thoughts on this episode!