liz3564 wrote:Interesting...Just took the color test...I'm a RED, too, Bond!
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I'm a red, too, Liz, with some blue.
What I don't like about the test is that it doesn't account for change. I've mellowed a lot since I was a child and I'm not nearly as bossy now. I promise!
It's both a blessing and a curse. Being a thinker has enabled me to see things with progressively greater accuracy. But it probably hasn't increased my happiness. My tendency to overthink things has probably lessened my enjoyment of things considerably. It's also made me more hesitant than I should be to decide and to take action.
Alright.....were you channeling my spirit (inner) child when you wrote this part? This is me to the "T", right down to enjoying things less due to the need to over analyze things, even when they're fine. I guess the ability to find contentment with the status of anything is my problem.....even if something sounds/feels/looks good, I still have to roll it around again to see if it can get any better.
Some antidotes to one kind of overthinking--in the area of decision-making--are provided in the book The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More. The book would give you some things to think about. ;-) Annnd, it would help you know the cost of overthinking a decision, how to think less (but more effectively) about a decision, and, most likely, how to be happier.
I'll look for that book.....being happier would be a plus ;)
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Bond...James Bond wrote:even if something sounds/feels/looks good, I still have to roll it around again to see if it can get any better.
Ahhhh, Bond, yes, we have much[i] in common. You, like me, are a "maximizer." If you want to know what that is exactly, how it causes grief, and what you can do about it, [i]definitely read The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. In fact, if you read no other book in the next few years, read that one.
We read this book in my book club and you become a part of the color code cult after taking it. You look at others in a new light. I keep this book next to my Bible now and reference it when I need to forgive somebody.
I was blue with a little white.
Looks like I'm blue too- very interesting.
Blue three... but, like it says: "No two BLUES are exactly alike" I remember when I took one of these a while back it had me almost evenly split between blue and yellow. So, I guess I'm a fun-loving, self-righteous, ADHD, "Sainted-pit-bull."
Groooovy.
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
Bond...James Bond wrote:even if something sounds/feels/looks good, I still have to roll it around again to see if it can get any better.
Ahhhh, Bond, yes, we have much[I] in common. You, like me, are a "maximizer." If you want to know what that is exactly, how it causes grief, and what you can do about it, [I]definitely read The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. In fact, if you read no other book in the next few years, read that one.
I'll keep that book on my to-read list.
Thanks Don.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07