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1211 Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument

Friday, September 25, 2009

I took this test sometime in 2007. I got the results the day I was laid off. I haven’t cracked that envelope until now. It’s pretty much what you think it is. Here’s your personality traits, here’s your co-worker’s. He’s not an asshole, you guys just differ. Interesting for a moment, but ultimately sorta…blech. They don’t really give you STRATEGIES for utilizing what you know. Here’s what it says about me:

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Things I’m learning about today

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Today is Saturday. I’ve given blood, eaten a salad, had my first iced Americano, and am slogging through Jonah Lehrer’s pop-neuroscience-for-high-schoolers-essay-turned-hardback How We Decide. Here are a few terms dropped in the last few pages that I need to learn a lot more about:  asymmetric paternalism (a new political philosophy), loss aversion ( a psychological [...]

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Today on Will it Blend: your mind.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Go ahead and tell me how you maintain any verifiable continuity, logic, or purpose after offering up your beliefs, theories and feelings to this set of nasty cognitive tests.

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The Effects of Aging on Personality

Sunday, April 27, 2008

I took the NEO-IPIP late in 2005 for the first time and the results were FASCINATING. Most interesting to me was that I did not judge myself as being very moral. Morality is a subcategory under Agreeableness, and I scored a 17 out of 100. That is frighteningly low. However the meaning of this isn’t [...]

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