Who Am I?
Hello out there, thank you for reading.
I am a Creative person, an analyst and a thinker. Also trickster.
Who Are You?
There are many ways to measure yourself against all the other people in this world and in these measures we may come to value and understand who we are. And in their own way these observations may be valid in honestly describing you or parts of “You”. For myself I can use the following scales to paint a picture.
But none of these are really important; they are simply representative approximations, labels, comparisons, gradings, and illustrations of where contemporary understanding is today. The old labels of a century ago, for example, are simply not used anymore because we believe they are not truthful enough.
What is important is that you have a deep and unwavering understanding of yourself, a consciousness so powerful you realize that it is an energy that is separate from your body. The ‘You’ that is you exists separately and independantly from your corporeal wet-machine; that while you are of your body, and in your body, and your connection with the world is through the sensory machinery of your body (which includes your brain and its wiring and chemistry), you are still not your body. Your body is the garage where you park your soul while on this plane of existence.
So, how can we measure our ‘self’ against other peoples’ ‘selfs’?
Here are some popular ways:
Read the DSM-5 and self diagnose. (NO. DON’T actually do that!)
Consult with a professional psychologist. (YES, do that!)
Take any ‘standard’ IQ test, like the MENSA or Stanford Binet
Take the Emotional Intelligence test from Psychology Today or Mind Tools
Take any test evaluating psychopathies.
Take any test evaluating anxieties.
Take the Briggs-Myers personal evaluation inventory.
Take the Lüscher Colour Test. It uses colours.
Take the Who Am I? test. This test uses pictures. Dating sites use this.
Take one of the various ‘working types by colour’ tests.
Take E. N. Aron’s Highly Sensitive Person’s test. (that’s me! mostly sort of)
Take any one of the evaluations related to the autism spectrum: ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s, Autism, Dyslexia
Find out if you are part of Richard Florida’s Creative Class.
Take the Pymetrics test for problem solving skills
Do the Big Five Personality Test, a ‘work with others’ evaluation.
Take the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Indicator to find your workplace ‘archtype’.
Read both ‘Goddesses in Everywoman’ and ‘God’s in Every Man’ by Jean Shinoda Bolen to determin your personal “Archtype(s)”
And lastly, take the Big Daddy of Workplace Tests, the MAPP Career Assessment, perhpas the biggest job and personality test you can take.
Exhausted yet? We haven’t even been to the gym or for that matter, tested our video game playing skills!
You get the picture.
BUT AFTER ALL THIS REMEMBER: YOUR MINDFULNESS, HOW YOU TREAT OTHERS, AND WHAT YOU DO — YOUR ACTIONS IN THIS WORLD ARE WHAT MAKE YOUR REALITY.
How you choose to live and think and feel is, while you are here, Who You Are.
Sean Dec. 2020.
