What a crypto team gets from me is a teammate people like working with and someone who builds with passion. This page is the evidence: teammates' feedback and my SPI from one semester, including the one gap I am working on.
Key findings
Reliable, and seen as reliable
Core Values. Reliability is where my identity and my reputation match. In the three rounds of 360s, "accurate, quality deliverables" was a perfect 4.0 in two rounds, and "on time and prepared" went 3.33, 3.75, 4.0. In round 3 I was in China for a week for a personal reason, so I missed several group meetings, but I still delivered quality work with a backup slide for questions. The words match too: I chose Hard-Working for myself in the SPI, and my teammate chose it for me in the PRS. This is the part of my brand that deserves the most weight.
I see a Driver. My team sees an Analytical.
Communication Style. My SPI puts me at +3.0 proactivity; my teammate's PRS puts me at −3.0. We agree on everything else (both low reactivity: calm, factual, task-first). The gap is how much I push. I picked Adventurous and Experimental for myself; the words picked for me were Rule-Follower, Calm and Poised. The 360s say the same thing every round: "holds others accountable" is my one score below the team average all three times, and the comments ask me to "ask questions when confused" and to speak with "a commanding voice." My proactivity is real, but it shows in my own work, not in the room.
Warmth I was not counting on
Course insight: Charisma. I built my persona around competence. The Charisma Diagnostic puts me in the Charismatic Zone with warmth and confidence both at 3.18, and the 360 comments are about warmth more than anything else: "a real glue guy", "so much fun to work with", "a positive and supportive attitude." I work in my second language and told the team early that I might need things repeated; a teammate called that a strength. I did not expect warmth to be the thing people remember. It will be the front of how I introduce myself from now on.
Alone, I am a Driver
My SPI (Driver, +3.0 / −3.0) and my teammate's PRS rating of me (Analytical, −3.0 / −5.0). Same person, two quotes; the gap is proactivity.
The SPI asked me to rate my own communication behavior on two axes: how proactive I am (do I push, decide, state opinions) and how reactive (how much emotion shows). I came out a Driver: proactive, fast, controlled. That matches how I work alone. I built trading systems nobody assigned me, diagnosed the first one when it lost money, and moved them next to the exchanges in Tokyo without asking anyone.
Calm under pressure; does not panic on a losing day
Growth areas
Pushing other people's work, not only my own
Asking the question out loud when I am unsure
Letting energy show when I present
Warm and confident in equal measure
3.18Warmth Quotient
3.18Confidence Quotient
Charismatic Zoneboth above zero, on a −10 to 10 scale
The diagnostic measures how my verbal and nonverbal cues signal warmth (approachable, empathetic) and confidence (assertive, present). I land in the Charismatic Zone with the two scores identical, which says people read me as both approachable and capable. The numbers are moderate, not high; the zone is a starting point, not a finish.
Growth mindset. Confidence is the one I can train. The 360 comments name it exactly: "be super confident when presenting and have a commanding voice." So I practice the way I practice anything with a feedback loop: record myself explaining one trading decision in English every day, listen back, fix one thing. Warmth I keep by doing what already works: telling the team what I need, and helping where I see a gap.
In the room, the team sees an Analytical
The PRS asked a teammate to rate the same behaviors from the outside. The result was Analytical: proactivity −3.0, reactivity −5.0. The reactivity matches my own view. The proactivity does not, by six points. The comment explains it: "I perceive Bohan as a hardworking student. I can tell that he cares about doing well in school and is a driven individual. He can continue to improve this image by being outgoing and energetic."
Growth mindset. This is an intention-versus-impact gap, and I only see it because someone measured it. My intention is decisive; the impact in a team room is quiet. The fix is not to become a different person. It is to make the decisive part visible: one question asked out loud in every meeting, one written check on someone else's deliverable each week, and the work on this site, which is ownership nobody asked for.
"Bohan is a great teammate to have for a group project!"
The 16 words my teammate chose for me
Well-InformedGood with NumbersValues EducationWell-RoundedIdea-GeneratorProblem-SolverCuriousIndependentHard-WorkingRule-FollowerInvolvedPoisedDrivenGrowth-OrientedEven-TemperedCalm
Three rounds, one score that never moved
Three rounds, me against the team average. Deliverables and preparedness finish above the team; accountability stays below it every round.Contribution to a positive team environment sits around the team average; the comments go further than the numbers.
"Despite being in China for a week and not being able to be there in person during the beginning part of drafting, I still felt like Bohan contributed more than other team members. When he got back, he researched his slide and even made a backup slide for questions."
"The best thing I think you could work on is just asking questions when you are confused. I wish you asked more questions so we could be more unified as a group on some talking points."
"You are a real glue guy, and working with you so far has been so much fun."
"I appreciate that he informed the team that sometimes he may need us to repeat ourselves in case he missed anything the first time it was said. Bohan should continue to not be afraid to ask questions if he needs clarification."
Reading three rounds of this changed how I see my own semester. The numbers I was proud of (deliverables, preparedness) were real, and the team saw them. The number I kept missing was the same one every time: holding other people accountable, 2.67, 3.25, 2.50, below the team average each round. Nobody asked me to be louder for its own sake. They asked me to ask questions, so the group would be unified on the talking points. That is a small, concrete thing, and it is the one I am changing first.
Growth mindset. I run trading systems the same way I want to run myself: review the numbers every day, find the one thing that lost, fix it, run again. Feedback is not a grade; it is the daily review. Next semester the metric I am watching is accountability, and the behavior is one question per meeting and one written check per week.
All three rounds, me / team average
Metric
Pres 1, me / team
Pres 2, me / team
Pres 3, me / team
Read
Shows up on time and prepared (0–4)
3.33 / 3.40
3.75 / 3.68
4.00 / 3.76
Rising, now perfect
Engages effectively with the team (0–4)
4.00 / 3.85
4.00 / 3.96
4.00 / 3.96
Perfect, three rounds
Listens attentively, responds to input (0–4)
3.67 / 3.65
4.00 / 3.80
3.50 / 3.76
Dipped in round 3
Accurate, quality deliverables (0–4)
4.00 / 3.55
3.75 / 3.76
4.00 / 3.88
Above average in two of three
Respects others' ideas (0–4)
4.00 / 3.75
4.00 / 3.96
3.75 / 3.84
Dipped in round 3
Holds others accountable (0–4)
2.67 / 3.00
3.25 / 3.28
2.50 / 2.92
Below average, every round
Quality of work (%)
89.3 / 91.3
94.0 / 91.8
90.0 / 90.9
Peaked in round 2
Amount of effort (%)
88.0 / 89.0
95.5 / 90.7
87.5 / 90.4
Peaked in round 2
Positive team environment (%)
91.7 / 92.4
98.5 / 94.1
95.0 / 95.6
Around the average, one big round
Contribution score (team high)
2 (6)
not shown
5 (8)
Rising; total 13 (team high 21)
Comment sentiment (−1 to 1)
0.68
0.93
0.70
Positive every round
Brand strategy
My persona travels on three things: my crypto research, my arbitrage trading systems, and the crypto industry internship I am working toward. The research shows how I think: read the protocol, explain it clearly to everyone. The trading systems show what I build when I care about something: I push into it on my own, which is proactivity. Reliability and warmth only show inside a team, so until the internship, the three rounds of 360s are the record. The gap between how I see myself and how I am seen closes by asking one question out loud in every meeting, not by becoming a different person.
Key takeaways
Aligned. Reliability: my teammates rate me where I rate myself.
Different. Proactivity: I see a Driver, my team sees an Analytical.
Unexpected. Warmth: higher in my reputation than in my identity.
Next steps
Record five minutes in English every day.What did I do today, and what did I learn? Listen back, then improve it again.
In the next team, take the lead.Accountability was my one score below the team average all three rounds; the fix is to be the one who sets the plan and checks the work.
Intern with an exchange or trading team, Summer 2027.