Twenty-eight statements about the way your mind likes to move: whether it wanders or digs, settles or stays open, argues or listens. There are no right answers and nothing’s being graded.
At the end you’ll get a sketch of your thinking, where it pulls two ways, and a few thinkers I think you’d enjoy. Some will feel like old friends. One of them will probably want to argue with you.
Answer as you are, not as you think you should be. It takes about seven minutes, and you can sit down whenever you like.
I made this for fun. It isn’t a psychological test, and it can’t tell you anything you couldn’t argue with.
Your shape
The shape of it
Your seven tendencies as a shape. There’s no good shape, only yours.
An even shape and a lopsided one are both fine. They’d just enjoy different conversations, and different books.
The seven tendencies
Each one runs between two ways of thinking. Neither end is the better one, and some great philosophers sit at each.
Where your thinking pulls two ways
Where two tendencies tug in different directions, or line up. That’s usually the most interesting part of anyone’s thinking.
Thinkers you’d probably enjoy
From the people on my compass, two who think a bit like you, and one who’d argue with you. Each one opens their card.
One more question
Where the seven come from
| My name for it | What it draws on |
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Since last time
Keep it
Save it, compare it with a friend’s, or take it again on a different sort of day and see if the shape moves.