How Self-Aware Are You?
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How Self-Aware Are You?
By W F G 06/08/2008 at 4:57 pmBozak, if you can play a pipe, I can follow off a ledge.
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How Self-Aware Are You?
By Bozak 06/08/2008 at 1:21 pmDamn, the test said my score was too low to compute. Strange, it said I was qualified to be a politician. I wonder what that’s all about.
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How Self-Aware Are You?
By W F G 06/08/2008 at 3:23 amahh screw the rest. i hate you test i hate you i hate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How Self-Aware Are You?
By W F G 06/08/2008 at 3:22 amLevel 2. Score 21 – 28 ADOLESCENT (Extracted from the book Think of an Elephant)
You are friendly towards the people you meet personally, though remain suspicious of most people and situations beyond your direct experience. This causes you to miss out on opportunities because you are quick to judge (sometimes incorrectly). This means that you operate from the ‘tribal’ level of mind. You are yet to reach the truly ‘civil’ mind. Your friendships are largely based on proximity; when you leave a job or a location, the friendships often fade.
Though you may be well-intentioned, you are more inclined to see problems than create solutions.
In the workplace you will help someone, but almost always only if you like them, or if you are ordered to help. Willing to work when shown, at work you need constant supervision, and work best under clear command-and-control leadership. Though you are impressionable, you form strong opinions, seeing things from a black-and-white position. This makes you more defensive. You fight to be right rather than be effective. Unfortunately, this mis-spent energy often gives rise to unexpected outcomes. Though you may not intend to be lazy, you often waste time.
In love, your black-and-white attitudes can appear to others as sauciness or bravado, which may initially be attractive. However, this will soon wear thin on your partner – and your friends. Watch that you listen more loudly than you sound out your opinions.
You self-absorption means that your ethics are flexible, adjusting to suit your needs. The ends you seek justifies the means you use to be successful. Self-righteousness comes easily to you. You are capable of caring seriously about another person’s wellbeing, even a stranger’s – but only after having met them personally. True altruism, were you give without any expectation of personal advantage or reward, really isn’t your thing.
You are not a bad person, you just need to search further – beyond yourself. With no real sense of anyone’s life beyond your own, you operate at this short-sighted level with limited appreciation of the consequences of your actions. Because of this you can be corrupted. Your own immediate needs remain paramount to you. You are capable of passing on information, but are unable to manage or lead effectively. There are some questions you have not even considered and guess what, these questions have answers. You just need to know where to look.
When we operate at this level, any person displaying any sign of authority that we look up to – whether it be a uniform, a stethoscope, a famous face or a confident, loud voice – can quickly persuade us to comply with even their most outrageous requests.
This is most likely hard-wired into our evolution by life-threatening emergencies that have occurred throughout human history, where decisive command-and-control decisions and strong leadership meant the difference between life and death.
Take heart; you are not a lost cause. If you want to make real personal progress, you need to make truth your authority rather than authority and opinion your truth. Pay specific attention to chapters 3, 5, 9, 11, and 13 of Think of an Elephant; read these chapters in particular and you will see more clearly how you can consciously connect into the higher levels of personal power. These powerful positions await you beyond the limitations of your present vulnerable outlook.
You…
have an emerging but immature sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’ and life beyond self
have an unreliable sense of empathy
though you have formed strong, primal attachments to your inner circle of family and friends, in your drive for ‘independence’ you often deny these relationships to yourself
have learned that things are not exclusively yours, and that you must share
find problems more readily than solutions. Blaming others still comes easily to youset the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ less rigidly: the buffer-zone of separation begins to disintegrate
have a well developed sense of ‘other’ beyond self
are readily able to express empathy and behave generously, but only towards people known to you
care a little about some of the direct consequences of your actions, but take little interest in the much wider implications of your actions and attitudes
experiment socially and may even enter controversial relationships and friendships outside the previous boundaries of acceptability or familiarity
learn to collaborate and negotiate, discovering that both parties can successfully have their different needs met
learn to trust more widely, and in turn learn to be trustworthy ourselves -
How Self-Aware Are You?
By Chris Orton 06/08/2008 at 12:54 amWow, Cecil may or may not be a liberal, but regardless he is an overinflated moron. Are you trying to say that all liberals have superegos like yours? As a hard core conservative (that also scored as a Creator), that makes me laugh. Oh and I just wanted to say that I don’t think that all liberals believe that they are so powerful and influential in the world that they can single handedly destroy or save it. And by the way Cecil, you can’t.
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August 5th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I’m a creator….I AM YOUR NEW GOD!! BOW BEFORE ME!!
August 5th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Will all Liberals score as “Creators?” We can’t change the world being critical, but we can change ourselves if we are self-aware.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I’m an adult. I’m as shocked as you…
August 5th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Quiz ranked me as a creator.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
damn it, how’d you guys get to be creators? i’m just a dumb adult.
lol, fury.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Level 2. Score 21 – 28 ADOLESCENT (Extracted from the book Think of an Elephant)
Crap. . .
August 5th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
LOL, Michael. I bet it was the traffic question that decreased your score!
August 5th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Level 3. Score 29 – 36 ADULT
August 6th, 2008 at 12:07 am
I got a high score but only because I lied my head off. I’m not only self-aware, I’m test-aware. It was fairly easy to see what answers would score well. The test seems to have been devised by a Buddhist monk.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Wow, Cecil may or may not be a liberal, but regardless he is an overinflated moron. Are you trying to say that all liberals have superegos like yours? As a hard core conservative (that also scored as a Creator), that makes me laugh. Oh and I just wanted to say that I don’t think that all liberals believe that they are so powerful and influential in the world that they can single handedly destroy or save it. And by the way Cecil, you can’t.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Level 2. Score 21 – 28 ADOLESCENT (Extracted from the book Think of an Elephant)
You are friendly towards the people you meet personally, though remain suspicious of most people and situations beyond your direct experience. This causes you to miss out on opportunities because you are quick to judge (sometimes incorrectly). This means that you operate from the ‘tribal’ level of mind. You are yet to reach the truly ‘civil’ mind. Your friendships are largely based on proximity; when you leave a job or a location, the friendships often fade.
Though you may be well-intentioned, you are more inclined to see problems than create solutions.
In the workplace you will help someone, but almost always only if you like them, or if you are ordered to help. Willing to work when shown, at work you need constant supervision, and work best under clear command-and-control leadership. Though you are impressionable, you form strong opinions, seeing things from a black-and-white position. This makes you more defensive. You fight to be right rather than be effective. Unfortunately, this mis-spent energy often gives rise to unexpected outcomes. Though you may not intend to be lazy, you often waste time.
In love, your black-and-white attitudes can appear to others as sauciness or bravado, which may initially be attractive. However, this will soon wear thin on your partner – and your friends. Watch that you listen more loudly than you sound out your opinions.
You self-absorption means that your ethics are flexible, adjusting to suit your needs. The ends you seek justifies the means you use to be successful. Self-righteousness comes easily to you. You are capable of caring seriously about another person’s wellbeing, even a stranger’s – but only after having met them personally. True altruism, were you give without any expectation of personal advantage or reward, really isn’t your thing.
You are not a bad person, you just need to search further – beyond yourself. With no real sense of anyone’s life beyond your own, you operate at this short-sighted level with limited appreciation of the consequences of your actions. Because of this you can be corrupted. Your own immediate needs remain paramount to you. You are capable of passing on information, but are unable to manage or lead effectively. There are some questions you have not even considered and guess what, these questions have answers. You just need to know where to look.
When we operate at this level, any person displaying any sign of authority that we look up to – whether it be a uniform, a stethoscope, a famous face or a confident, loud voice – can quickly persuade us to comply with even their most outrageous requests.
This is most likely hard-wired into our evolution by life-threatening emergencies that have occurred throughout human history, where decisive command-and-control decisions and strong leadership meant the difference between life and death.
Take heart; you are not a lost cause. If you want to make real personal progress, you need to make truth your authority rather than authority and opinion your truth. Pay specific attention to chapters 3, 5, 9, 11, and 13 of Think of an Elephant; read these chapters in particular and you will see more clearly how you can consciously connect into the higher levels of personal power. These powerful positions await you beyond the limitations of your present vulnerable outlook.
You…
have an emerging but immature sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’ and life beyond self
have an unreliable sense of empathy
though you have formed strong, primal attachments to your inner circle of family and friends, in your drive for ‘independence’ you often deny these relationships to yourself
have learned that things are not exclusively yours, and that you must share
find problems more readily than solutions. Blaming others still comes easily to you
set the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ less rigidly: the buffer-zone of separation begins to disintegrate
have a well developed sense of ‘other’ beyond self
are readily able to express empathy and behave generously, but only towards people known to you
care a little about some of the direct consequences of your actions, but take little interest in the much wider implications of your actions and attitudes
experiment socially and may even enter controversial relationships and friendships outside the previous boundaries of acceptability or familiarity
learn to collaborate and negotiate, discovering that both parties can successfully have their different needs met
learn to trust more widely, and in turn learn to be trustworthy ourselves
August 6th, 2008 at 3:22 am
ahh screw the rest. i hate you test i hate you i hate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Damn, the test said my score was too low to compute. Strange, it said I was qualified to be a politician. I wonder what that’s all about.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Bozak, if you can play a pipe, I can follow off a ledge.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:57 pm