Understanding myself-Part 1

Earlier in the day, GK got back to me about his cash contribution was rejected by the CPF to his SA account and commented that he will prefer to leave it in the SRS instead. As a result, I decided to search online for more details and found some articles that were on one of the more influential financial blogger “Investment Moats”.
As I was reading the articles, I started to get real excited about the different building blocks of the “wealth machines” model that he was espousing. It gets me excited to read up more and start building up my own model and having it work on its own. Recently, I had been trying to be more mindful and trying to find my way in life, trying to better understand what I like and what I don't like.
It seems that I am excited about building things or processes. For example, I could spend time trying to fine tune an excel spreadsheet and troubleshooting and trying to make it better. It always gives me a huge satisfaction to see things that I had built to be working fine and effectively. I also realize that I like to organized stuffs, like pack my room, like to know where I can find things and stuffs, track my possessions. Basically, having control over my life.
I guess that is probably why previously when I attended the UX design talk, I felt really connected to it. It is definitely more a designing kind of role as compared to a technical kind, but I felt that I can reconcile with the idea of providing a more complete user experience (i.e. processes) for people. In a way, you can say that I like to solve problems. Whether it is a process kind of problem or a genuine problem (provided I know and have the tools to do so).
For some time, I had thought that I am more of an inquisitive person, just wanting to know how things work. However, for some reason, I cannot safely say that's entirely the case. There are times that I went all the way to understand things but there are some times, I just basically give up at some point. Now, I figure maybe the reason for the difference is due to the whether the information is able to help me solve the problem or whether the information is just for me to know why a certain thing work in a certain way.  For example, I knew of the tool “Pivot Table” in excel and I always wanted to learn how it works and all like way before I started work. However, I never gotten round to learning about it until recently when I need to dissect a bunch of data for work purposes. Not saying that I am a pro at it now, but least I started somewhere.
I had initially wanted to be a research person, you know like those equity analyst and things like that. Then I found out my passion for research ends at the point where statistics are at play, which I am not good at. However, I do like to keep digging up info and establishing an opinion on it and to have a system in place before a trade. Again it will not be like a random thing where I just suddenly want to research on it, it is most probably when a friend or closed ones who require the information. Only then will I go and do it.
I realize I also like to advise people, but I do not like to force sell things to people. And most probably why I like to advise people is because it could solve their problems. Sales sometimes mean that you have to force sell to people just to meet your KPI, not exactly my kind of role.

So here is the summary.
• I like to build and create processes.
• I like to solve problems provided I have the tools and means to do so.
• Most of my motivations are helping people to solve problems, things that only affect me and seeing thru a project.
• I like to have an opinion on things and be organized about it.
• I like to have a certain degree of control of my life.