I just took a refresher for personality test. Not that it changed much but I needed it for some review. I still am largely introverted. No surprise there. Browsing through the explanation of the other dimensions, I got a bit curious. I think people nowadays no longer really pay much attention to this element. Or was that thinking brought about by the industry I am working in?
Thinking Versus Feeling?
Do you make decisions using your heart or your head? Heart or brain? Something to that line. There is this quick test that people do. Without much preparation, you need to put your hands together – clasped and fingers interlaced. That action will result into three possible thumb positions:
1.) Right thumb over your left thumb
2.) Left thumb over your right thumb
3.) Both left and right thumb are side by side (tried this and this one is uncomfortable)
Based on these thumb positions, it is supposed to conclude whether you are a person who decides using their brain or the one who decides using their heart.
If you tried that and your result was number one (1) that means you are a supposed to be a person with high emotional quotient ergo your decision is influenced mostly by feelings.
If you are clasper resulting to number two (2), it means you are a person who is not impulsive. Meaning you make most decisions by thinking it through.
If you are clasper number three (3) , I seriously have not met one, seems you make decision by hearing out opinions of others and weighing these opinions and arriving with your own. Rather unclear.
If I happen to get things mixed up please do correct me haha.
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Whether you decided with your heart or with your brain most decisions are weighed thoroughly, anyway. Or am I wrong? There really is no right or wrong there.
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It was way back in the year twenty something. Four, no five. Five friends were sitting around in their usual hangout place talking about life. They all had milk teas in their hands and a burger that they bought along the narrow alley at the side of their back school gate. It was the last day before they all go back home for summer break. Not everyone lives in the city. Some will be going back to the province and spend a month there. So, they will not be seeing each other for a real long while. Or possibly never even.
They have spent their two years together pursuing the course they loved or so they thought they loved. They still have a year more. Well, it was the course they planned to love and the course they would love to pursue. But here now, in that after noon, with their class cards in their hands, major decisions were being planned and re-planned. Over two years, they agreed on a motto: They will not leave what they started unfinished.
But they also agreed that courage could also mean accepting when it is time to give up.
They have covered necessary topics including where they might need each other’s support most: talking to their parents with the decision they come up with. They promised, in case, things get too heavy at home after breaking the news to the parents, they will be ready to pick up the phone call.
There was an exchange of whether they decided right in the first place. They recalled how they came to a decision to take this course. And now two of them is deciding calling it quits will be the best idea.
One quipped, “I don’t know anymore. I followed my heart look where it got me?”
Another said, “Right. I followed my brain, look where it got me?”
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So is it your heart that got you where you are now or is it your brain?
Eh?
July 3, 2021
I'm number two. And it seems correct. But often times I end up overthinking before arriving to a decision