Directions: Please make sure to fill out all 24 questions! The answer sections are in purple.
You “make things happen” by organizing people and resources to accomplish goals. You can make the “tough calls.”
Examples: Bernie Sanders, Lucy Liu, Michelle Obama, Emma Watson, Al Gore, Uma Thurman, Judge Judy, Bill Gates, Courteney Cox.
You understand frameworks and analyze what makes empirical sense to inform choices. You create tremendous focus on a single subject/object. You communicate with radical honesty.
Examples: Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Albert Einstein, Tina Fey, Harrison Ford, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Murray, Anna Kendrick, Simon Cowell, Emily Blunt.
You understand people’s needs and meet them through organized efforts. You connect emotionally with others. You understand culture and promote unspoken social contracts.
Examples: Emma Stone, Jason Segel, Oprah, Martin Luther King Jr, Pope Francis, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jennifer Garner, Selena Gomez.
You recognize how events impact individual emotions, starting with your own, and make choices accordingly. You tap into personal convictions.
Examples: Princess Diana, Kurt Cobain, Stephen Colbert, Morrissey, Ryan Gosling, Rihanna, John Lennon, John Green, Prince, Bob Dylan.
Summary: You are fully present and in the moment. You understand the world in realistic terms, using the senses to comprehend concrete reality. You learn through movement and activity.
Examples: Dave Chapelle, Meryl Streep, Beyonce, Mila Kunis, Malcolm X, Nicki Minaj, Pink, Jack Nicholson, Ryan Seacrest.
You preserve precedent and order, and will create it where it is not present. You work like an autobiographer/memoirist, recording the subjective experience and its impact. You desire and understand stability and tradition.
Examples: Mark Hamill, Kate Middleton, Gwenyth Paltrow, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis, Robert De Niro, Mother Teresa, Nick Offerman.
You see patterns in life between disparate things and new emergents. You learn quickly by trying new combinations and experimenting. You see new possibilities everywhere.
Examples: Robin Williams, Amy Poehler, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Downey Jr, Salvador Dali, Ellen DeGeneres, Hank Green, Adam Savage, Jerry Seinfeld.
You dive deep into the subconscious to see patterns within the human mind. You are not married to your own perspectives, so you can usually find different perspectives, including ones of others. You constantly re-estimate the future, plan it, and envision it.
Examples: George Harrison, Jodie Foster, Jay-Z, Josh Radnor, Carey Mulligan, Colin Firth, Julia Stiles, Benedict Cumberbatch, Elon Musk, Steven Hawking.
Admittedly this is the hardest one to understand, but if it's "you," it should click as familiar, even if it's hard to put into words!
Please make sure you have exactly one answer that's your #1, one #2, one #3, etc!
IDEALIST: I search for unique identity and meaning. I value empathetic, meaningful relationships. I trust my intuition and imagination. I focus on developing potential in others, finding a purpose in life, and bridging differences. I’m future-oriented and want to make the world a better place. I value people and relationships the most. I want to be authentic and achieve social harmony. RATIONAL: I’m analytical, theory-oriented, and future-oriented. I seek to understand the principles of how the world and things in it work. I trust logic and reason. I am skeptical and precise. I am driven by a vision of the future. I focus on strategies and designs that achieve long-range goals and lead to progress. I want competence and thorough knowledge. ARTISAN: I’m spontaneous, flexible, and adaptable. I’m closely attuned to what is going on around me, and very present. I read people and situations, and focus on the needs of the moment. I’m optimistic, and trust luck and my ability to handle whatever comes up. I’m driven to have new experiences. I’m action- and impact-oriented. I want freedom to choose my next action. GUARDIAN: I’m stable, dependable, and practical. I like standard operating procedures, and look to the past to see what has worked before. I crave responsibility and predictability. I trust the past, tradition, and authority. I’m detail-oriented. I focus on logistics to support people, maintain organizations, and achieve objectives. I want security, stability, and to belong.
EXTERNAL-MINDED: I focus on the world outside of myself, I direct my energy outward, I receive energy from taking action and interacting with people. My mind is out in the world, I’m not too stuck in my head, I typically initiate. I’m active and expressive. INTERNAL-MINDED: I focus on my inner world, I direct my energy inward, I receive energy from self-reflection on thoughts, ideas, feelings, and/or memories. I’m more stuck in my head, I typically don’t initiate unless the situation is important to me. I’m thoughtful, reserved, and more receiving.
REALIST: I prefer to focus on what’s real and tangible, what’s actually happening. I’m observant and practical. I remember specifics and am cautious when I adopt new theories. I trust experience, and what is concrete and factual. THEORIST: I prefer to focus on the theoretical big picture, the connections and relationships between things, the abstract. I naturally find meanings and patterns. I am oriented towards future possibilities. I follow hunches and trust inspiration.
LOGIC-BASED: I look at situations objectively. I prefer to mentally remove myself from the situation to analyze a decision’s logical consequences. I wish to find a solution that is most reasonable and treats everyone equally, even if it’s a little “tough.” I like to focus on the task or problem at hand. I can be critical when appropriate. VALUES-BASED: I look at situations with empathy. I consider what is important to me and to others involved, and place myself in the shoes of everyone else to assess the impacts of potential solutions on others. I wish to find a solution that is most harmonious and positive. I try to consider everyone’s needs as individuals.
PLANNER: I like to regulate and manage my life with order and structure. I want to make decisions, settle things, and stick to my schedule. I am organized, systematic, and methodical. I try to avoid last-minute stresses and improvisation. Plans comfort me. SPONTANEOUS: I like to live in a spontaneous, flexible way. I seek to experience and understand life rather than control it. I prefer to stay open to new information and last-minute options. I try to be resourceful and adapt to the moment. Plans make me feel confined.