Suzy Welch
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other end of that continuum is abstract thinking.
Like I'm very, very high on abstract thinking and very low on spatial visualization.
And this student was off the charts on spatial visualization.
And he said, I love to go into stores and stare at packaging.
And on top of this, he had, his values showed that he had quite a low value of achievement, which is the value of having success that other people can see, really caring about winning and losing.
He had low work centrism, meaning that he's a person who wanted a real nine to five kind of lifestyle.
And his top value was belovedness, which is about the value that we hold for a romantic partner.
And then his second value was family centrism.
And this was a kid who was walking into consulting.
He was like, this is painful to see.
And he went away.
And when he came back about a week later to office hours, he said, Professor Welch, I'm blowing it all up.
I'm going to go into business with my girlfriend.
I've asked her to marry me.
And we're going to start a company making specialty drink product.
It was really cool.
And he had already designed the packaging for it.
And in fact, they launched.
They're doing incredibly well.
They had a six pack of it.