The World's Shortest Personality Test

[vilakins]

From glitterboy1 originally, then several others, the shortest personality test -- and a surprisingly accurate one for its extreme brevity going by the results I've seen so far.

You are dependable, popular, and observant. Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness. In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do. You are unique, creative, and expressive. You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while. And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!

The World's Shortest Personality Test

I'm not sure about the first and last sentences but the rest's fairly right.

Note: the link they provide is wrong; I had to fix it.

Comments

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

The first statement is entirely true, from what I know of you! And I for one think you're charming, so there. :D

Yay for freaky flag-waving!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[jumps up and down, waving freak flag] And the same to you, fellow bluey!

I think it's the popular bit that's wrong; it doesn't really go with weird freakiness. At aschool I was always Daria to my sister's Quinn -- now she was popular.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

You can be popular with the other freaks. Which, you know, you pretty much are. :)

*salutes the freak flag*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We should have a blue freak parade. Hey, Zhaan and Stark'd turn up!

I did lead the Out Group at high school in some very strange role-playing of an alternate WW2, so I wasn't exactly an outcast. Just ... alternate.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I didn't get a freak-flag, alas, but is my withdrawn, affection-disdaining, logical-hole-poking self invited, anyway? :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yep, come and join us! All eccentrics welcome, including Avon (who so matches your profile), and I know Vila will be there; he'll go to anything that looks like fun.

[kerravonsen]

But oddly enough, I picked that one too, and I don't think it fits me very well. My emotions certainly don't influence everything I do. And while I may be dependable, I'm neither popular nor observant. (I may be insightful but I'm not particularly observant)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

My emotions certainly don't influence everything I do.

Mine don't either, not when I'm functioning properly, but they do take over when I'm under stress.

I think I am observant, but popular isn't me at all--just look at the word: the people's choice. It's not really part of the personality as described.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Hm... but it's an internet quiz, and you're popular on the internet? Or at least well-liked.

The problem I ran into was that I liked several different choices equally well! And the one I finally picked, the black oceany one... made me feel a bit conceited. ;-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's the classic INTP one and so totally Avon.

I can see bits of me in some of the others but this was my first and immediate choice. Oddly enough, the ones I made for vila_restal and kerrill were pretty close to them (and not at all like me).

you're popular on the internet? Or at least well-liked.

Awww. [shuffles feet and looks embarrassed] On-line life is so much better than the real kind and I have such good friends here. And what's more, I'm much more of a success here too. I never made it in RL but writing fanfic is something I can do.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

On-line life is so much better than the real kind

I think it's like that for a lot of us. It takes down the barriers.

I never made it in RL

Now, wait... RL is not over yet. Even if you feel you haven't 'made it' yet - whatever that is for you - you've still got plenty of time, and the intelligence to do something with it. I believe in you!

[kerravonsen]

Yeah, what she said.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I used to be a fairly successful programmer back when there was lots of R&D and it was fun, but when it all got taken over by accountants and turned into mainly support, I just stepped back. It was too stressful and all the fun had gone; people don't even chat and joke any more. So unless I write a novel which gets published, that's it for me.

But hey, I have both fun and some sccess in a tiny fandom so that's very cheering.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well, I've sort of given up on the corporate world after getting majorly stressed out doing support 24/7 so I'm not sure there are any other options. If I had the time and money I'd write the novels in my head. I always wanted to be an author.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

::is impatient with own inability to communicate::

There are always options. One of the things I've noticed, watching my own health go downhill, is that I've wasted a lot of time thinking I couldn't do things that, looking back later, I darn well could have done. Or, I could have done something similar that would have given me the satisfaction I was looking for. Whatever it is that you want to do with your life, start doing it now. Please.

It's been my experience and observation that INTxs tend to sabotage ourselves, not because we're incapable, but because we can't sustain belief in ourselves. When we believe, we can do almost anything.

Ten minutes a day will give you a novel eventually (if that's what you really want). So will five minutes a day. You just have to believe that you can do it, and then keep moving forward.

And now I will shut up and go away and mind my own business.

::crawls in hole and pulls it in after::

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know, I should write those books. Some authors would starve to get their stories on paper; I suppose I lack that all-consuming drive.

Right. I shall start by trying to get that PGP of mine finished. :-)

You're right though about INTs not believing in themselves. When I do (as I did when I was a very successful student at school and uni, and later as a development programmer) I can do well, but it doesn't take much to shake my confidence and make me doubt myself. I lost all my professional confidence (and the loyalty I felt to employers) when I was made redundant in a very nasty way, and lost further confidence in myself as a person when I left my last permanent job due to being verbally abused by two different guys there who liked playing power games, and now I'd rather do contracts and get lots of time off between them for the successful bit of my life (writing fanfic) then try to climb back (whether up the ladder or on the horse). Life is too short to go for success when happiness is much better.

Actually I'd really like to live in up in the Bay of Islands and run a B&B and write. A nice laid-back life but not one Greg would go for unfortunately.