Who am I?

you are an independent leader.

personalDNA

about you

you are a leader

Your solid grounding in the practicalities of life, along with your self-assuredness and your willingness to appreciate new things make you a LEADER.

You're in touch with what is going on around you and adept at remaining down-to-earth and logical.

Although you're detail-oriented, this doesn't mean that you lose the big picture.

You tend to find beauty in form and efficiency, as opposed to finding it in broad-based, abstract concepts.

Never one to pass on an adventure, you're consistently seeking and finding new things, even in your immediate surroundings.

Because of this eagerness to pursue new experiences, you've learned a lot; your attention to detail means that you gain a great deal from your adventures.

The intellectual curiosity that drives you leads you to seek out causes of and reasons behind things.

Your confidence gives you the potential to take your general awareness and channel it into leadership.

You're not set on one way of doing things, and you often have the skills and persistence to find innovative ways of facing challenges.

You are well-attuned to your talents, and can deal with most problems that you face.

Your independent streak and masculine nature allow you to make decisions efficiently and to trust your instincts

You approach problems in an analytical way, not getting caught up in your own emotions. You are an independent thinker, not wedded to the preferences of others.

You do your own thing when it comes to clothing, guided more by practical concerns than by other people's notions of style.

The control you feel over your life is empowering to you-- you believe in your abilities and acknowledge your shortcomings. Explanations of the world that focus on destiny or fate don't really interest you. You take responsibility for what goes wrong in your life, and also for what goes well.

If you want to be different:

There's more to life than the practical - take some time to daydream and explore the aesthetic sides of things.

how you relate to others

you are independent

Your inward focus, trusting nature, and sharp sense of right and wrong make you INDEPENDENT.

Your thoughts and actions are not reliant on what others think about you; you have a clearly defined moral structure.

When it comes to others, you are very practical, expecting people to take care of themselves.

You generally believe the best about people, but you hold them to high standards.

Similarly, you believe in maintaining integrity, honor, and a sense of respect for those who have earned their success.

Trust needs to be earned with you; you're slow to forgive when people have violated your trust.

Spending time alone means a lot to you, as does keeping certain things private.

You quietly observe a lot about the world, giving you a keen sense of both how things are and how things should be.

You've learned that you need to prioritize your own feelings, as opposed to always considering others' feelings first.

If you want to be different:

Let your trust in others allow you to consider that interpersonal situations can be complex, and that people's feelings in those situations can take many forms.

Accordingly, in working harder to understand people's perspectives, you might find that their insights can help you make better decisions.

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your personality chart

»Glossary of Traits

This chart shows thirteen personality traits. Each bar indicates the percentage of test takers who entered a lower value for that trait than you did. For example, if Confidence is at 80, that means that 80% of people entered lower values for confidence questions than you did. Based on a sample of 30,000 users. Click here to learn more about the traits.

Confidence	LowHigh	88
Openness	LowHigh	90
Extroversion	LowHigh	34
Empathy	LowHigh	18
Trust in others	LowHigh	58
Agency	LowHigh	96
Masculinity	LowHigh	100
Femininity	LowHigh	0
Spontaneity	LowHigh	32
Attention to style	LowHigh	16
Authoritarianism	LowHigh	90
Earthy/Imaginative	ImaginativeEarthy	98
Aesthetic/Functional	FunctionalAesthetic	6

5,5 weeks on AIESEC International - doesn't time fly?

I have been in Rotterdam for almost 6 weeks, and it was gone by very fast. My suspicion is, time will speed up even more, so I thought I better get some thoughts down on paper.

Since I came here on May 1, I have had individual transition within Financial and Legal management for around 4 weeks. By the time the common team transition started 1,5 weeks ago, I already had a number of tasks and projects up and running. I like that, cause it makes me feel accomplished.

Getting everyone else here was really nice. Especially as finally I felt there were people I could talk to, about impressions, thoughts, feelings. I had M. as my roommate for two weeks - truly awesome, and have been living with D. for the last two. Both of them have given me loads of thinking and thoughts, which I really like. The strange thing about everyone else arriving, is both the reality and the perception.

Reality: My stage of discovery is different at any given point of time, as I have been here longer. (3-4 times as long as most).

Perception: Clearly, I am harder to connect to because of this. I "know" some stuff, (which also has to do with my role), which means that others even treat me as if I have been around for ages. They call me Papa Rolf.

It's interesting, and it's not necessarily uncomfortable. However, I realise that I have to make some choices myself to construct the life, as well as network I need, in order to feel good here.

AI life:

People ask: What's it like to be on AI? Answer: It's pretty normal life so far. You get up in the morning, have breakfast and coffee, go to the office. There, you work with loads of cool people on projects varying from the mundane to the super-strategic. Depending on the day it's super-challenging or confusing. AI serves the network. And they key question for me everyday is - how is what I am doing today serving the network. It resembles MC alot in terms of activities and responsibilities. The key difference is that 90% + of the organization you are leading you don't know. Because you never worked in that LC. Because you never were in that MC. Because you are not from that country. Because you didn't live there. Because when you interact with it and visit it, you are blinded by your own perceptions and interpretations.

I once said on this blog that you don't reach any conclusions if you don't jump to them at some point. The challenge of jumping increases, however, when you don't know how far the jump is before you make the leap.

Can you see the bottom? Can you see the other side?

I like it. I am challenged. And I am a bit alone. And I think that's perhaps good for me.