What’s A Challenge You Faced Early On?

Across my internships and roles, there’ve been different focuses and styles of working. It was a challenge to know how to adjust my mindset for these different experiences.

More than just the workflow, it's about what kind of thought process do you need to have in order to excel? 

With policy, you want to think in systems. With NASA, you want to think in engineering. With Darden, you want to think in entrepreneurial terms. They're very different philosophically in how you should approach them. 

At the end of an accelerator at Darden, Omar Garriot, who leads the program, said "We're not in the business of making products." You would think that an accelerator, which is all about accelerating products, should be in the business of making them. He said, "We're in the business of making entrepreneurs." 

And that stuck with me. Every role, every context, is less about the output and more about the kind of thinker it's shaping you into.