Personal Entrepreneurship Statement

In preparation for my personal entrepreneurship statement, I evaluated my own personality and characteristics and also had those close to me evaluate my personality through online questionaries and interviews with my parents. The instruments that I used were the Myers-Briggs Indicator and two questionaries from The Authentic Happiness Project at the University of Pennsylvania. These tests were very interesting because I saw a lot of similarities between the results, giving me great insight on my characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses. I thought the Myers-Briggs Indicator was definitely the most insightful test because it gave a very in-depth analysis of my personality. While the other two tests did offer some insight into my personality, I felt that the results were not as well explained and extensive as the Myers-Briggs Indicator. The information that I received from my Mom and Dad was also very insightful as they are the two people in my life that …show more content…
I do demonstrate some, such as being hardworking, enthusiastic, and persistent, but my shyness is something I think that would limit my entrepreneurial success. But, my introversion is definitely something that would be easy to improve. One of the most important things when being an entrepreneur is creating social networks and obtaining social capital through extracting benefits from these connections. I admit that because I am shy around unknown individuals it is much harder for me to make connections and finding networks. But due to the fact that I do have good social skills and am just introverted it would not be impossible for me to create new social networks, I would just have to put some effort into it. However, I think my personality traits and strengths would be better suited for another career track rather than