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I have learned a lot about myself, what I really appreciate. It’s also something I did not expect to learn during this course.

Something that really helped me with that was a personality test. It showed me what my strengths and weaknesses are. It actually confirmed what I already thought about myself. But it is good to read it again, it gives me an opportunity to reflect on myself in a better way. It helped me to improve my weaknesses and enhance my strengths.

Some of my strengths due to the personality test are; Very Creative – INFPs combine their intuitive nature with their open-mindedness to allow them to see things from unconventional perspectives. Being able to connect many far-flung dots into a single theme.

I also think my talent is being creative,at least I like to create things. That is one of the reasons why I started at the school for goldsmiths. I would love to mix some of that creativity in the business live. I think this is my strongest point, because it already started at a really young age. I have always loved arts and crafts, my best grates in high school where for drawing. Being creative and open minded is especially important as a business innovator since it provides the ability to see opportunities that others might not see.

'Try to push themselves to commit to a chosen cause or person, forgetting to take care of the needs of others in their lives, and especially themselves’ ’Passionate and energetic.’

I can be to focused on something, and all the other stuff around me do not really care anymore than. When I got a plan, and a vision and I’m confident that I can do it, I will go for it. And do everything that is in my power to achieve it. It’s something that you need as a business innovator, in my opinion. For example, I don’t have much knowledge about computers. I just make use of the internet and word and all that. So when the course HTML started I was frightened, because I immediately thought I would not understand it. But to my own surprise I quite understood it, and people were even asking me for advice.

Something else that is important in my learning is to really see it as a process. I often felt the urge to just stick with my first idea, for example the choosing of the IWoB subject. I thought I had a great subject, but when I started to look a little bit more into it, it seems not such a good idea after all. Because there was not enough information available or the subject wasn’t as interesting as I thought it would be. There is always room for improvement, and especially the opinion of someone else is important. Because they could see something in a entire different way, and give you good comments.

I had that for example with the BMC of fundamentals of business, we all got the same lecture and all read the same website. But they remembered things I didn’t think of anymore. Or they found certain aspects of the business way more important than I did. In that way you can see a business from a whole other angel.