Update tracker 2017 / 2018

Edited after May 2017 - Amol

Added Characters

Added correction on OCEAN framework

Added links for background on Barnum Effect etc.

Need to add Personality Theory is a framework and useful to navigate as a “set of hats”

Need to add a specific “do this quiz” section and focus on either MBTI or OCEAN

Consider role of Drucker (Managing Oneself) and other management theory.

Founders and personalities.
Personalities in personality theory.
Keep these people in mind as we talk today.
The scientific basis of personality.
You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be
critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to
your advantage.

While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you. Disciplined and self-controlled
outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.

At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the
right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when
hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and
do not accept others” statements without satisfactory proof.

You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are
extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some
of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life.
The Barnum Effect.

More here http://www.denisdutton.com/cold_reading.htm

Four approaches to who it’s for:
Horowitz (nowish)
Emerson (1830s)
Kant (1700s)
Schumpeter (1910s)
Venturing to change the
world. It’s not for everyone.
“Life is struggle.” - Marx
- from Ben Horowitz, “The Struggle”
Emerson, “Self-Reliance.”
Exciting isn’t it?
A note about Man, and
Woman, circa 1832 when
Emerson is writing.
Kant.
Schumpeter’s Man of
Action.
Personality theory.
The Big Five: OCEAN
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Myers-Briggs: E/I,N/S,T/F,J/P
Extrovert - Introvert
“Parties: tiring or energizing?”
Intuitive - Sensing
“What’s in your fridge?”
Thinking - Feeling
“The right answer or do the right thing?”
Judging - Perceiving
“How is your wallet organized?”
12 years ago, Amol was much more strongly N T and strong J
Appendix.
Schumpeter’s Man of
Action.
Man of Action vs Static Person

Equilibrium theory doesn't apply

Adam Smith - capitalist as lender/investor

Say - price speculator
Schumpeter - new combinations of production

Making a new enterprise - this is where all the variables of innovation are followed at once

Action is intuitive not highly rational and systematic

Numerous ideas. Many variables. Choosing the right approach is on intuition more than systematic process.

The problem of the work is

Technical - make something
Personal - resist the psychological draws to give up
Social - overcome the society that doubts new things with suspicion