How does someone know they want to be an MD/that they’d be a good MD?

All the analyst work that people do seems to be Excel/PowerPoint editing and financial models. But MDs are more relationship-driven roles. So how does someone know they’ll like/be good at being an MD as an analyst or before even if the work isn’t really similar at the entry vs. the senior level? Is there any way to gauge this while in college/on the job? Maybe like personality types or something?

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