The Personality Test that Pulls No Punches
“20 Questions to a Better Personality” is a personality test that tells it like it is and gets it about half right, at least in my case. My initial result was SRCL — Sober Rational Constructive Leader:
Wackiness: 38/100
Rationality: 64/100
Constructiveness: 92/100
Leadership: 56/100You are a SRCL — Sober Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you a Ayn Rand ideal.
Taggart? Roark? Galt? You are all of these. You were born to lead. You may not be particularly exciting, but you have a strange charisma–born of intellect and personal drive–that people begin to notice when they have been around you a while. You don’t like to compromise, but you recognize when you have to.
You care absolutely nothing what other people think, and this somehow attracts people to you. Treat them well, use them wisely, and ascend to your rightful rank.
Of the 65678 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 5.5% are this type.
I’ve read a little Ayn Rand, and find her a little scary in a mildly fascist kind of way. I’m typically either more of a loner or more of a consensus-builder than this type would indicate. I’m on the cusp with another type, though — the SRCF:
You are a SRCF — Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer.
You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can’t go on without you–or worse, that it can.
If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say “no.” While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.
Of the 65678 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 7.8% are this type.
That sounds more like the person my co-workers and friends might recognize, though I feel I have more potential than that. I suppose you could say that I currently match the second description, but aspire to a more friendly and egalitarian version of the first.
(Props: jluster.org)
I think the SRCF is pretty accurate for you.
And Ayn Rand scares the crap out of me.
Comment by Jen — December 16, 2004 @ 11:06 am
I have read quite a bit of Ayn Rand, although it was ages ago (when I was in the Army in 1960). I remember one of her statements (she always made “satements”) in Atlas Shrugged, which went something like this:
“The most depraved person is the man without a purpose”.
Wrong as usual. The most depraved person is the person with the most depraved purpose.
Comment by Dave Boyle — September 21, 2006 @ 11:11 pm
I’d have to disagree about depravity and purpose, Dave. It’s perfectly possible for one to have a noble goal in mind, but achieve it by despicable means.
The most depraved person is the most depraved person, period. Depravity as a variable of personality is independent from one’s goals. The most dangerous person is a depraved person with a strong since of purpose.
Comment by Adam Messinger — September 23, 2006 @ 5:08 pm