“ What is your purpose?” The first and most important question posed on the very first minute I started my journey as a Venture Builder, nothing to do with business, or design, or technology, not something I haven’t heard before. Just something i got reminded to be reminded of. What is my purpose?
This word-vomit is my recollection of thoughts from the past week that led to the crux of that question. Throughout the first week of induction, I’ve not been taught anything about ‘business-business’, but its all about understanding my own perspectives, and empathizing with others’.
Going through Dr. Alex Lin’s crash course on Human Psychological Behavior and Attitudes, I am aware of myself as a right brained person. This is a concept that I have come across before, but not thought much about. In the world of business, before knowing others, i have to know myself. As cliché as it sounds, its true, and just something i can’t stop thinking about. A conceptual thinker — just someone who never stops daydreaming, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but i now know how others with different traits ( analytical, structural and social ) think of me.
Flashbacks to the past got me reminded of all the times i was being just me- highly energetic, talking about random thoughts not related to any topics me and my mates were discussing on. The times that i might’ve been super weird to all those around me. I knew i was different in how i thought about the world around me, my momma said i was special anyways. Stereo-typically ( don’t mind me generalizing ) , guys use their left brain more than their right, but i just grew up having a predominantly artistic facade.
Other boys are find interest in the maths and sciences, I find interest in taking baths and fantasy giants. Other boys pick fights, I pick flowers.
That being said, its been a full week and the question comes back again, “what is your purpose?” Well, a stereo typical ‘dude’ would say something like my purpose is to change the world, or something more masculine like that. I have been thinking about nothing much other than this simple question and i know, for a fact, i just want to be a good father to my children. I want to give my future hypothetical children a great life, better than i had, or am going to have. Its time to shut up, sit down, and put in the hard work.
