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Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||| 56%
Stability |||| 20%
Orderliness || 10%
Accommodation |||||||||||| 43%
Interdependence |||||||||||| 43%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Mystical |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Religious |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Hedonism |||||||||| 36%
Materialism |||||||||||||||| 70%
Narcissism |||||||||| 36%
Adventurousness |||||||||||| 50%
Work ethic |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Self absorbed |||||||||| 36%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||||| 56%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 43%
Romantic |||||||||||| 50%
Avoidant |||||||||||| 43%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Wealth |||||||||||||||| 70%
Dependency |||||||||||| 43%
Change averse || 10%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Individuality |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Sexuality |||||| 30%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical Fitness |||||||||| 37%
Histrionic |||||||||||||||| 63%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||| 70%
Vanity |||||||||||| 50%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Female cliche |||||| 23% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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Movies are for distracting people so I can think in peaceQuotes"Well, as soon as you get away from actual poetic forms, rhyme, meter, etc., there is no line between prose and poetry. From my way of thinking, many poets are simply lazy prose writers." --William S Burroughs "We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising..." Sir Isaac Newton, Principia"Quiet fruitfulness. The born aristocrats of the spirit are not overeager; their creations blossom and fall from the trees on a quiet autumn evening, being neither rashly desired, not hastened on, nor supplanted by new things. The wish to create incessantly is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. If one is something, one does not actually need to do anything--and nevertheless does a great deal. There is a type higher than the “productive†man."----Nietzsche, 210, Human, All Too Human
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."And a third kind of possession and madness comes from the Muses. This takes hold upon a gentle and pure soul, arouses it and inspires it to songs and other poetry, and thus by adorning countless deeds of the ancients educates later generations. But he who without the divine madness comes to the doors of the Muses, confident that he will be a good poet by art, meets with no success, and the poetry of the sane man vanishes into nothingness before that of the inspired madmen." [Plato, Phaedrus 245a]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////////////Simonton, 1999, Oxford Press: “Moreover, among the various types of creative activities, illustrious scientist appeared more stable than did distinguished artists and authors. To offer specifics, whereas only 28% of the notables in the natural sciences experienced some sort of mental disorder, psychological problems plagues 60% of the composers, 73% of the visual artists, 74% of playwrights, 77% of fiction writers, and 87% of the poets. The last figure seems to endorse Thomas Macaulay’s comment: ‘Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.’ It is interesting to note that Ludwig has more recently shown how parallel differentials hold with specific creative domains, depending on whether the emphasis is on logic, objectivity, and formalism or on intuition, subjectivity, and emotionalism. In painting, for example, only 22% of painters practicing a formal style exhibited some form of mental disorder, whereas this incidence rate increased to 52% for those painting in a symbolic style and to 75% for painters who expressed themselves in an emotive style. According to Ludwig, the data display the fractal characteristic of ‘self-similarity’. The same pattern that separates leaders from creators, and then divides scientific creators from artistic creators, also permeates down various levels of resolution, culminating in the stylistic contrasts within a single creative domain, such as in painting… ....First, although creative geniuses seem to exhibit above-average psychopathological symptoms, these levels are seldom so high as to translate into total mental and emotional deterioration. Indeed, if they do suffer from such extreme degrees of disturbances, their creative careers terminate, whether by suicide or complete intellectual or emotional incapacitation. Consequently, creative individuals tend to exhibit symptoms midway between those of the normal and abnormal personality. Dryden captured the fine distinction when he composed the often quoted lines ‘Great Wits are sure to Madness near ally’d, / And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide.’ Second, creative geniuses tend to possess other cognitive and emotional resources that help to channel and contain any potential psychopathology. Besides superior intelligence, eminent creators will possess considerable ’ego-strength’ and other traits of personal fortitude and self-discipline. These moderating attributes enable creators to exploit the strange ideas that fill their heads without allowing those ideas to take over the organization of their personality. Such traits allow a person to engage in the full range of behaviors required for creative accomplishment. Albert Rothenberg has provided excellent examples in his psychiatric studies of the creative process in both schizophrenic and authentic poets. Unlike true poets, schizophrenic poets refuse to revise their initial drafts, revealing an inability to adopt a more objective perspective on their work. They are all inspiration without verification, variation without selection… …At the low end of this dimension are those people who are socialized, conventional, and conformist but also empathetic and altruistic. Such low scorers are not only normal, but perfectly well adjusted for life in human society. At the high end of this dimension are those who are impulsive, egocentric, antisocial, impersonal, hostile and aggressive, at times to a criminal degree, and who, at the higher extremities, display tendencies toward psychopathic, affective, and schizophrenic disorders. According to Eysenck, although high scores are associated with appearance of pronounced psychopathology, moderately high scores are also linked with the manifestation of exceptional creativity. A considerable amount of psychometric research, in fact, supports this assertion….Eysenck began by recognizing the creator’s need for an exceptional reservoir of remote associations that will provide a rich source of divergent responses. He then reviewed an impressive number of empirical studies showing that psychoticism positively correlates with performance on word association tests as well as on various measures of divergent thinking. Individuals scoring higher on psychoticism do indeed seem more capable of producing a large quantity of unusual ideas…People with just the right amount of psychoticism would be prone to have all sorts of seemingly irrelevant ideas pop into their heads almost randomly, and without control. Even if not meaningful in themselves, this chaotic influx of ideas can prime new chains of associations that lead to insights otherwise missed…However, it is not too far-fetched to conjecture that mental disorder maybe the unfortunate consequence of inheriting too much proclivity for proteanism…Rather the creative genius may reside at the delicate neutral point between the highly fit protean intellect and the sadly unfit pathological mind. Perhaps only the greatest creators can stand at the very pivot between success and failure.â€