Kerwin Xiang Liao | 廖翔

A Fastidious Maverick in Business Research

Hi, I am currently a fourth-year doctoral student in International Business at University of South Carolina.


"Amid countless uncertainties and possibilities, we must strive to identify a path toward hope and make decisive choices with calm and self-aware willpower."

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Welcome to Abnormal Human Research Institute!


Many people live in unconsciousness throughout their whole lives. Though the proverb says that “ignorance is bliss”, I am more interested in who I am, why I am thinking or acting in this way, but not that way. When myself becomes a study object of me, everything becomes interesting.

MBTI test tells me that I am an ISTJ/INTJ person. While I totally agree with I and T, the other two dimensions are quite balanced in the final scores. Recalling the past years of my life, I find myself a weird paradox in many aspects, if not all. I do appreciate those who did not speak “weirdo” in front of me to avoid hurting my dignity…

  • a risk-averse person who enjoys taking risks
  • an obtuse but bright person
    • My way of thinking is switching between “sensing” and “intuition”, which means that I need to spend quite a lot of time to sense the environment to have a broad picture. This process is long and makes me look obtuse…
    • When all the details become well-connected in my mind, I will start to be in control of this environment, which is the way of thinking from intuition people.
  • deliberate in counsel, prompt in action
    • Look like stuck on the road sometimes, but I would interpret that situation as the moment when cougars are looking for targets and waiting for the best time to take action
    • When the opportunity comes, act promptly without letting the target go.
  • conservative and iconoclast
  • serious and facetious (you can tell this from my website :) )
  • a loner who enjoy talking to strangers

MBTI


One of my advisors commented: “This is so atypical, even a bit weird. Why do you decide to do it this way?”

Well, the answer is that I am unique, even weird in many aspects, and if I am following others’ steps, how can I break the mold and differentiate from other people? I know doing doing this way may lead to failure, but how can we know the result if we do not give it a try?

I AM A MAVERICK. GO ALL-IN.

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