This one is different
My name is Salamander and I’m a quizaholic. [Greek chorus: “Hi, Salamander!”]
I wrote “testaholic” there first, but that looked terribly wrong.
I’m not sure how it started. I’m sure I could go back through my diary and find the first test I took. I might have even recorded the name of the quiz-dealer that gave me my first taste of quiz-high. But whenever it was and whatever it was, it was intoxicating.
I had to get more of this silly, giddy inducing stuff. So I started raiding other diaries, looking for goofier and goofier stuff. It finally got to the point where it didn’t matter what quiz I was taking. It could be high quality stuff like the Color Profiler (which always gave me blue). It could be low-grade scummy gutter drek like “Which Addams family member are you?” (I got Pugsly and it didn’t even slow me down). It was all a lark. I could quit any time I wanted. I just didn’t want to. And then …
I forget whose diary I got this link from, but I got it back on Thursday the 21st, so I’ve been sitting on it for a while. Ansir Personality Quiz looked innocent enough. Yeah, it was a little more complicated to take. And you had to sign up first in order to take it. But hey, it was a new quiz. I had to try it.
Nobody told me this one was serious. Nobody warned me that if I kept playing with quizzes I was eventually going to get a meaningful answer. Nobody told me it was going to come to this. Nobody told me that I might have to take something seriously eventually.
Anybody know of a twelve step program for quizzes? If I start taking these to heart, then it’s gone too far.
HEALER⢠WORKING STYLE
(Boss style)
●When they solve problems, they look at its effect and impact on the system as a whole.
●They have a natural talent for any field or endeavour where healing is involved.
These are the ones who change or broaden perspectives. The following excerpts are less specific than indicative of how conscientious Healer’s approach any job or task.
Healers find it odd that when people stub their toe they get angry, curse, and through hobbled grimace and gritted teeth ignore the pain. How much quicker the heal and more pleasant the day if that throbbing toe were held, its pain acknowledged, then comforted by sympathetic hands till pain eases and ends. After all, no matter the shoe, the speed, or the rocky path pointed, that toe never lets the body down. If small this change in thought does seem, apply that small principle to a larger scale, as Healers would, and note what differences result with change of belief.
When the body is sick or diseased, the prescribed policy is to view the disease with winner-loser hostility. Rather than stiffening resolve and muscle, and steadying nerve to control pain, rather than declaring all out war and focusing energy and resources on destroying the invader, flip perspectives instead. Focus light on body’s plight, for it’s every bit in need of caress as that stubbed toe once was. Accept the pain. Validate its existence. The body system may be confused as to which is friend and which is foeâthe body for allowing disease to enter or disease for daring. Wars are always confusing. As peace follows surrender in war, heal and cure can follow surrender in body disease.
DILIGENT⢠THINKING
●There’s a right way and a wrong way of doing everything, and they know the most right way of all.
●They perform best when given their own realm of responsibility.
Born competent and capable, Diligents harbour executive excellence and are the backbone of the business world. For these cerebral beings, reality conforms to the bounds and strictures of logic. Diligents play with ideas and make sport of problems.
When Diligent starts a project, they do so from the premise of a clearly defined problem and set objective. They then gather all relevant information, organize a system for its solution, roll up their sleeves, and with notebook in one hand and pen in the other, begin working Step One of their plan. Once all criteria has been met, checked, and rechecked again, they use that as foundation for processing Step Two. Detail and data are their barometer of progress. By criteria of fact do they measure success. This sequential, methodical, and meticulous approach is repeated at each level of development and through to completion. Throughout, they cannot and will not be rushed. They have developed and perfected their purely logical, note-taking approach for a reason. Diligent hates being wrong.
SENTINEL⢠EMOTING STYLE
●No pain is greater for them than betrayal.
●They keep diaries or personal journals.
This is the most common emoting style of 3 Sides Of You participants. Behind trademark reserve and alluring attractiveness is an individual who is hard to know and hard to love. Trust is the wall that divides. Whether Sentinel trust is an open or shut case, depends on how each has evolved and adjusted to three personality-typical determinants: language, loyalty, and new experiences. Characteristic of Sentinels is a crane-calm look of time suspended stillness or fixed concentration. None other portrays mind-at-work like them. Others are often surprised at the thoroughness and depth delivered when they do respond and reply.
No thought, no word, no action is more painful to these sensitive beings than good-bye. So ingrained is their conviction that all good must come to an end, Sentinels may not risk “hello.” To them, happily ever after only happens in fairy tales. And forget that silver-lining crap; the only thing dark clouds bring is rain. If by nature, they are skeptical and by choice reticent, then one question begs answer. Is there a causal relationship between reticence and the fact that Sentinels suffer internal degenerative illnesses more often than others? What is eating Sentinel from the inside out?
I can still quit any time I want.