This one's slightly off target
The personality test I mentioned in yesterday's post also identified a secondary personality type.
It called me an Innovator:
Innovators are successful, sophisticated, take-charge people with high self-esteem. Because they have such abundant resources, they exhibit all three primary motivations in varying degrees. They are change leaders and are the most receptive to new ideas and technologies. Innovators are very active consumers, and their purchases reflect cultivated tastes for upscale, niche products and services.
Image is important to Innovators, not as evidence of status or power but as an expression of their taste, independence and personality. Innovators are among the established and emerging leaders in business and government, yet they continue to seek challenges. Their lives are characterized by variety. Their possessions and recreation reflect a cultivated taste for the finer things in life.
This one makes me chuckle, since a lot of it sounds like it directly contradicts the primary personality type.
I especially like the last part about "a cultivated taste for the finer things in life." Those words just don't seem to equate themselves with the same guy that has sung the praises of bacon-cheese Krystals and meats wrapped in other meats on this blog.
I think those that know me, my brother in particular, would get a kick out of the part that says I am "receptive...to new technologies." If by "new" they mean early 1990s era technology, then this analysis is dead-on.
Finally, phrases like "successful" and "abundant resources" are applied pretty liberally in this case. Check with me again in 10 years to see if these words fit better. By that time, my big business idea (a chain of for-profit schools teaching kids useful workplace skills like blacksmithing, glass-blowing and turning straw into gold) and my financial planning (can you say "state lottery tickets"?) should have fully played out.
It called me an Innovator:
Innovators are successful, sophisticated, take-charge people with high self-esteem. Because they have such abundant resources, they exhibit all three primary motivations in varying degrees. They are change leaders and are the most receptive to new ideas and technologies. Innovators are very active consumers, and their purchases reflect cultivated tastes for upscale, niche products and services.
Image is important to Innovators, not as evidence of status or power but as an expression of their taste, independence and personality. Innovators are among the established and emerging leaders in business and government, yet they continue to seek challenges. Their lives are characterized by variety. Their possessions and recreation reflect a cultivated taste for the finer things in life.
This one makes me chuckle, since a lot of it sounds like it directly contradicts the primary personality type.
I especially like the last part about "a cultivated taste for the finer things in life." Those words just don't seem to equate themselves with the same guy that has sung the praises of bacon-cheese Krystals and meats wrapped in other meats on this blog.
I think those that know me, my brother in particular, would get a kick out of the part that says I am "receptive...to new technologies." If by "new" they mean early 1990s era technology, then this analysis is dead-on.
Finally, phrases like "successful" and "abundant resources" are applied pretty liberally in this case. Check with me again in 10 years to see if these words fit better. By that time, my big business idea (a chain of for-profit schools teaching kids useful workplace skills like blacksmithing, glass-blowing and turning straw into gold) and my financial planning (can you say "state lottery tickets"?) should have fully played out.
posted by Leighton @ My Best Investments at
6:23 AM
6 Comments:
I'm wondering what the other options were. As a consumer, I'm neither an achiever nor an innovator. My purchases are based on a combination of pretty packaging, random associations, brand loyalty, and "sale" price. Those marketers have my number. But at least I know that about myself. I guess my consumer type might be "sucker."
I love all this kind of stuff. It reminds me of my days in Innovation & Market Research at the bank, where I worked before my SAHM gig.
I'm impressed that you're able to balance an MBA program and family!
I think the high self esteem part could apply to a LOT of bloggers.
Kittyhox - I'll let my wife be the judge of how well I'm balancing work, school and family. Also, I'll put up some more of the personality types, or better yet put up a link to the survey. Thanks for the comment.
Darren - I would respectfully disagree with the test's assessment of my self-esteem level. I guess that's why it showed up as a secondary trait!
Now, this cracks me up, that the 2 are indeed somewhat contradictory. That IS you, and I hope each of us -- deep, complicated creatures with brilliant ideas, great taste in clothes & mates, and aware of the daily contradictions in our busy lives. Yet just shallow enough to worry about how our hair looks.
Having re-read Monday's post, I'm revising my opinion. It sounds too stodgy to be you. Conventional, sure, but in a good way & never stodgy. And of course, we do know you respect authority after the whole garbage dumpster incident!
How's the dying laptop? Any thoughts of replacing it with an Apple, given the 'rents experiences?
B - Dying laptop is still dying, but at least isn't complaining so much about it anymore. It has come to terms with its own mortality and has been pretty pleasant to be around.
But yes, I think we will wind up with a Mac later on in the year.
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