July 2, 2008

• wcfq 11a: Talent or Persistence

  If you had to choose one, would you rather have talent, or the fortitude to be persistent in whatever you do.
  Prometheus
  

  
  From personal experience, I’d rather have persistence than talent. Anything worth having is worth working for. It’s often been the case where the most talented people end up being the laziest because they don’t have to work in whatever area they excel to be good. They’re talented and so they don’t want to spend the time to be better; they don’t think they need it. Whereas someone with little or no innate talent, but a strong appreciation of the field, needs to have the persistence to develop a skill in that area. Skills are more important than talent because people with skill have made the effort to improve themselves and broaden their skill set in that area. Whereas talented people who do not have the patience to develop what they are born with are something like a one trick wonder, a savant… good but not creative. They lack the ability to synthesize new ideas in whatever field their talent lies.
  
  
  

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  I took this test two years ago and saw it again on TheCheshireGrins site. It’s interesting to see areas where I’ve changed…

  Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion 42% Stability 50% Orderliness 54% Accommodation 58% Interdependence 30% Intellectual 70% Mystical 90% Artistic 83% Religious 63% Hedonism 10% Materialism 10% Narcissism 56% Adventurousness 16% Work ethic 63% Humanitarian 90% Conflict seeking 43% Need to dominate 43% Romantic 23% Avoidant 76% Anti-authority 63% Wealth 10% Dependency 30% Change averse 56% Cautiousness 83% Individuality 76% Sexuality 10% Peter pan complex 63% Family drive 16% Physical Fitness 70% Histrionic 23% Paranoia 63% Vanity 50% Honor 90% Thriftiness 63%

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  personality test by similarminds.com

  Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.
  Orderliness
  results were medium which suggests you are moderately organized, hard
  working, and reliable while still remaining flexible, efficient, and
  fun.
  Extraversion results were moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

  trait snapshot:

  changeable,
  in the middle, suspicious, somewhat traditional, dislikes chaos, down
  to earth, group oriented, practical… you scored in the middle on the
  overall factors of this test. (Funny, it doesn’t look that way to me.)

  Apparently, two years ago I was….
  8% more extroverted
  10% more stable (yikes! lol)
  12% more accommodating
  20% more interdependent
  13% more intellectual
  a whopping 46% more materialistic (not that I was all that materialistic to begin with),
  27% more adventurous (now this one is disturbing)
  27% more romantic (a little concerning as well),
  7% more anti-authority
  6% more dependent
  13% more sexual (as if I could get less sexual)
  33% more histrionic (I never thought I was the hysterical type, and now even less so)

  the same mystically, artistically, hedonism, narcissism, conflict seeking, wealth, aversion to change, individuality, paranoia  (I’m pretty paranoid apparently)

  8% less orderly
  7% less religious
  7% less in work ethic
  6% less avoidant
  13% less dominating (puzzling)
  7% less cautious
  7% less of a Peter Pan complex (ha!)
  33% less physically active (… good for me?)
  27% less vain (Yipe! I didn’t think I was vain)

  In some of the old categories I was 50% self-absorbed, 56% concerned with physical security, 56% hypersensitive, and only 36% female cliche. lol
  
  

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  June 2nd
  

  
  The Italian Il Palio in Siena is a festival of medieval games.
  
  
  

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   In ancient times, the citizens of Rome celebrated the Feast of Expectant Mothers. At temples throughout the city, all pregnant women gathered to receive blessings and honor Bona Dea, Carmenta, Lucina, and other goddesses associated with birth and fertility.
  
  
  

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