Personality Tests
I love personality quizzes and the like. I took a break earlier to take this intelligence test (explained here). My results:
Your Personal Evaluation
The Seven Intelligence Areas
Musical: 10
Intrapersonal: 9
Linguistic: 8
Spatial: 6
Interpersonal: 5
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 4
Logical-Mathematical: 2
A Short Definition of your Highest Score
Musical - the ability to understand and develop musical technique, to respond emotionally to music and to work together to use music to meet the needs of others, to interpret musical forms and ideas, and to create imaginative and expressive performances and compositions. Possible vocations that use the musical intelligence include technician, music teacher, instrument maker, choral, band, and orchestral performer or conductor, music critic, aficionado, music collector, composer, conductor, and individual or small group performer.
That both surprises me (since I don't even play an instrument) and doesn't surprise me (since I love music so much and find it moves me in a way that nothing else really can). It makes me sad, though, because I feel like I missed my calling in life. Oh well, at least the linguistic category is near the top—pretty important because that does have something to do with my career. It's also comforting to know that collecting music or knowing a lot about music can be considered a vocation. Ha, I wonder if I can fit that into my résumé somehow....
By far, my favorite of these sorts of tests are the Myers-Briggs ones. Myers-Briggs is a source of endless fascination for me. I recently took this test and found I still register as an INFJ (my closest pairing is S/N). Here are two write-ups explaining my type (with links to all the other type descriptions). A lot of that sounds like me (barring the psychic phenomena, which sounds like it would be considered extreme, anyway). And I ended up in a job that is all about "dealing with minutia or very detailed tasks," and I think I'm pretty good at it.
Anyway, this isn't just so you can read all about me. I'm curious about all of you. If you wish to kill some time, have fun with these tests and please feel free to share your results. I know a few of your types already, but don't let that stop you from sharing.
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posted by Diane @ 1:29 PM
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I'm not prepared to drink the Kool-Aid on this, but:
Linguistic: 10
Logical-Mathematical: 2
Spatial: 2
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 3
Musical: 10
Interpersonal: 3
Intrapersonal: 8
As for Myers Briggs, INFP, which sounds a lot like me, but no way am I highly intuitive about people. Nope. Not at all, sadly.
I'm not prepared to drink the Kool-Aid on this....
Meaning you don't believe this? I'm telling you, this test is LAW.
Ha...I'm kidding.
I do admit to buying into Myers-Briggs quite a bit, though everyone is an individual and cannot be categorized 100%, of course. I'm not sure how seriously it's taken in the psych community. I took a few psych classes in college, and I don't remember learning about it at all, which seems strange. However, I have some friends who have taken the test for their jobs. All of the managers where I work have taken it, but the rest of us haven't. So I guess the managers understand themselves and each other, but not the rest of us. One of my friends works for the federal government in HR, and they all have to take the test. She's the only F in her group, poor thing.
I first came across the Myers-Briggs test in college, but it was web-surfing, not in psychology classes (I took four.) I regard it as an old friend, and like most old friends I'm not sure how trustworthy it is.
I showed the test to one of my schoolfriends who wasn't interested in the test as such but was impressed that I'd used the Net for something other than smut. I think she concluded that I didn't use the net for smut, so I must be a Good Boy. She was kind of nervously respectful to me after that, like I was a smalltown preacher or something. Oh, Myers-Briggs.
Apologies if I should keep such disclosures to my own blog. I don't mean to bring down the tone of Your-Russia.
Thanks for the consideration, Aaron.
You should totally take up an instrument.
I'm really great at devising ways to spend other peoples' time. Seriously, though, we're probably getting a piano soon for the kids to learn to play, and I know Ali is thinking about taking lessons herself.
That's really cool about the piano, Russ--especially that Ali is thinking of taking lessons. You'll have to let me know how that goes.
My Athens grandmother had an old piano in her house, and whenever I visited, I loved to sit and "play" it (I wonder how annoying I was to others in the house). It never occured to anyone (myself, included) that I might actually take lessons.
In college, I considered taking up the violin. Two years of very feeble guitar taught me to really think something like this through, and I made a pro and con list. For practical reasons, the cons won out. Now, I'm almost tempted to rethink this.
Go for fiddle instead.
Can anyone think of any good stories (in any format) about learning to play an instrument? I just read a comic titled Klezmer which I highly recommend; it's about jews and gypsies trying to make livings as musicians, and much of the story revolves around people learning how to play, learning each other cultures' songs, etc. The cartooning and watercolor is luminous.
I dabbled in piano for years, but my clunky fingers just didn't have the touch. My Grandmother had an old electric organ that took a few minutes to hummingly warm up. I loved to monkey around with that organ. Years later my parents bought me an old analog synthesizer so I could live out my dream of being Rick Wakeman. Then I gave the synth to a musical friend whom I owed money. I no longer had any interest in Wakeman, anyway. That was the end of my instrumental dabbling.
Fiddle, eh? I'd need some sort of back-up. Washboard, jug, or saw? All are up for grabs.
I suddenly just remembered a harmonica I used to play with as a kid. I even wrote a song to go with it titled "I Love You, Honey." The lyrics involved my need to marry a man with lots of dough. I don't think I was more than 5 or 6. Huh. That was back in the day when a tape recorder and a microphone were my favorite things in the world. Ain't life grand before the shyness sets in?
Aaron, Tarkovsky's diploma film, The Steamroller and the Violin, involves a boy and his violin. We even get a scene of him at one of his classes. That's the only example I can think of right now.
I've never seen a Tarkovsky film before, but his Sacrifice is Netflixing its way to my mailbox as we virtually speak.
I got your back on the washboard. Many refer to me as the Washboard Sam of the new millenium.
Solaris is my favorite of his. Heck, it's an absolute favorite film, period.
And I have no idea why Netflix is not yet carrying Stalker, which is also great.
Diane (or anybody), have you read Solaris? I own the book and don't want to see the movie until I read the source material, which is supposed to be excellent. I do want to see the film, though. And I won't get around to the book anytime soon...
I'm willing to bet ya'll hated the American remake, right?
I haven't read it. From what I've heard, Tarko's film is quite different from the novel, and Lem was very upset about that. I believe the two of them frequently clashed during the filming.
And yes, I did despise the parts of the remake that I saw.
Jeremiah: I'm hoping for a demo someday.
What was wrong with the Sex Lies and Solaris version?
Huh. Maybe I should take up piano. After all, a local college offers an after-hours class called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People."
The course description: If you yearn to experience the joy of playing the piano but don't want years of weekly lessons, then this beginning course is for you. In just one enjoyable evening, you will learn the chords needed to play any pop song, along with a healthy dose of insider secrets. If you can find middle C and know the meaning of Every Good Boy Does Fine, you already know enough to enroll in this course. If not, call and request the Instant Piano pamphlet. An additional materials fee of $25 is collected in class.
Wow, I could skip *years* of lessons and learn the basics of pop in "just one enjoyable evening." (Can they guarantee that it would actually be "enjoyable"? Seems kind of subjective to me.) I wonder if they give out certificates? "Diane successfully completed the Instant Piano class and is now equipped to play virtually *any* pop song at weddings, reunions, and parties."
If they don't give you a certificate, you should make one yourself. Use either crayon, majick marker, or Photoshop (Don't forget the lens flare!).
By "Sex Lies and Solaris version" I meant "Version of Solaris directed by the Sex Lies and Videotape guy whose name I'm blanking on," just in case that wasn't clear. I hear it was more of a Hollywood romance.
Steven Soderbergh
And I just thought you were making a joke...because that does sort of fit this version, at least the first part of your title.
I knew, as I went through the test, that some of my answers (or non-answers) contradicted those for other similar questions, and that I probably wouldn't score highly in any one area.
Who was it that once criticized His followers as being "neither hot nor cold"? Darnit!
Nevertheless, I like the results for the top 2 categories. Rather reassuring, given that I've been an editor for my entire working career:
The Seven Intelligence Areas
Linguistic: 7
Logical-Mathematical: 4
Spatial: 3
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 3
Musical: 7
Interpersonal: 2
Intrapersonal: 5
A Short Definition of your Highest Score
Linguistic - the ability to use language to describe events, to build trust and rapport, to develop logical arguments and use rhetoric, or to be expressive and metaphoric. Possible vocations that use linguistic intelligence include journalism, administrator, contractor, salesperson, clergy, counselors, lawyers, professor, philosopher, playwright, poet, advertising copywriter and novelist.
Musical - the ability to understand and develop musical technique, to respond emotionally to music and to work together to use music to meet the needs of others, to interpret musical forms and ideas, and to create imaginative and expressive performances and compositions. Possible vocations that use the musical intelligence include technician, music teacher, instrument maker, choral, band, and orchestral performer or conductor, music critic, aficionado, music collector, composer, conductor, and individual or small group performer.
Thanks for sharing, Christian.
I'm not sure I recall specific answers I gave that contradicted each other, but some of those statements were odd and needed more than an agree/disagree-type answer. Still, rather fun.
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