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July 26, 2003
Smart 'N Crazy
I was poking about this morning reading some of the listings on Jim's blogroll, when I ran across a link to an interesting little personality quiz at Drumwaster. Here's my results:
free enneagram test
Healthy: Observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness and insight. Most mentally alert, curious, searching intelligence: nothing escapes their notice. Foresight and prediction. Able to concentrate: become engrossed in what has caught their attention. / Attain skillful mastery of whatever interests them. Excited by knowledge: often become expert in some field. Innovative and inventive, producing extremely valuable, original works. Highly independent, idiosyncratic, and whimsical.
Hmmm....reasonably accurate.
Unhealthy: Become reclusive and isolated from reality, eccentric and nihilistic. Highly unstable and fearful of aggressions: they reject and repulse others and all social attachments. / Get obsessed yet frightened by their threatening ideas, becoming horrified, delirious, and prey to gross distortions and phobias. / Seeking oblivion, they may commit suicide or have a psychotic break with reality. Deranged, explosively self-destructive, with schizophrenic overtones. Generally corresponds to the Schizoid Avoidant and Schizotypal personality disorders.
Heh, heh. Smart 'n crazy....a dangerous combination that. Now let's see what famous people I'm supposedly most like.
Examples: Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Georgia O'Keefe, Stanley Kubrick, John Lennon, Lily Tomlin, Gary Larson, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, James Joyce, Bjšrk, Susan Sontag, Emily Dickenson, Agatha Christie, Ursula K. LeGuin, Jane Goodall, Glenn Gould, John Cage, Bobby Fischer, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Trent Reznor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, and "Fox Mulder" (X Files).
Now there's a motley crew isn't it? Could've been worse...my second closest personality type (Type 8) list included Donald Trump, Susan Sarandon & Saddam Hussein.
So I guess I'm in pretty good company....smart 'n crazy instead of smart 'n meglomaniacal control freaks.
Posted by Rita at July 26, 2003 08:23 AM
Comments
I'm the Peacemaker. Easy-going, self-effacing.
Pretty accurate, really, at least the short version.
Posted by: mtpolitics at July 26, 2003 09:16 AM
7-Enthusiast. Pretty darn accurate. Watch out for that uncontrollable manic behavior. ;)
Posted by: Merrily at July 26, 2003 09:20 AM
It was fairly accurate wasn't it? I do generally avoid schzoids, but I'm not schizotypal. [Yes you are] Am not! Damn dog, always talking inside my head.
Posted by: Rita at July 26, 2003 09:34 AM