Chapter 3
Determining Your Side-Hustle Personality
IN THIS CHAPTER
Zeroing in on key personality traits
Aligning your personality with your side-hustle options
Your chances for success go way, way up if you devote your energies to a side hustle that’s a good match for your personality and motivations. On the other side of the equation — as you can probably guess — a mismatch between almost any side hustle and your personality and motivations is going to be frustrating at best and a disaster at worst.
Understanding Your Personality
Are you an extrovert who loves to constantly meet and engage with new people? Or are you sort of shy and more of an introvert?
Do you tend to persevere through one tough challenge after another, and somehow always find a way to make things work? Or do you tend to surrender when things get particularly difficult, and move on to some other activity?
When people criticize you, do you take it personally? Do you get defensive? Do you immediately fire back with angry words, either in person or online? Or are you more along the lines of “Oh, who cares — it’s their problem, not mine.”
By now, you may be wondering: Where is this chapter headed? This is starting to sound like some sort of personality quiz you would run across on Facebook or maybe in a Psychology ...
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