Thinking Methods - A List of Choices

EXPRESSION - extroverted, balanced, introverted
ORIENTATION - to tasks, things, time, people, process, payoff
VIEW - simple or complex, subjective or objective
ACTION - proactive, controlling, adaptive, reactive
VOLUME - brief, appropriate, detailed, rambling, expansive
CONSCIOUSNESS - of things, self (receiving), searching, others (giving), service
CONCERNS - who, why, where, when, what, how
TIME PERSPECTIVE - past, present, future
THINKING SPEED - fast or slow; sporadic or steady
SENSING MODE - sound (audio), vibration or feeling (kinesthetic), light, color (visual), words (digital)
ORGANIZATION - high, formal, casual, poor
COGNITION - artistic, intuitive, creative, logical, lateral, rational, irrational
DIRECTNESS - direct, vague, ambiguous, metaphoric, symbolic, indirect
SCOPE - all encompassing, expansive, wholistic, generalized, diversified, narrowly focused, one-pointed, specialized
INCLUSION - Inclusive (attracts), convergent, exclusive (avoids, separates, rejects), divergent
FOCUS - high detail, concrete, factual, practical, selective, ideas, concepts, big picture, ideals
DECISIVENESS - decisive, quick, methodical, changeable, reflective, slow, passive, avoiding, procrastinating
FLEXIBILITY - changes easily, adaptable, rigid
MODE OF MOTION - straight-line, sequential, weaving, erratic, oscillating, rhythmic
ACCURACY - precise, accurate, careful, careless, fuzzy, inaccurate
FIRMNESS - fixed, changeable, contradictory, vacillating, weak, yielding
ENDURANCE - high, low, sporadic
TRUST - skeptical, neutral, believing
DISCIPLINE - disciplined, undisciplined
OUTLOOK - optimistic, neutral, pessimistic

Does your mind most focus on:

• essence, purpose, meaning, concepts, values, ideas, facts?
• uniqueness, similarities, differences?
• solutions, problems?
• synthesizing, unifying, distinguishing, harmonizing,
• discriminating, separating, analyzing?
• thinking, intuitive, sensing, feeling?

Are you:

• active experimenter or reflective observer?
• leader or follower, influential or influenced?
• willful, intellectual, magnetic, attentive, accommodating, compromising, docile, absentminded?
• scientist, organizer, teacher, preacher, artist, philosopher, destroyer, builder, devotee?
• conceptualizer, discoverer, dreamer, common sense thinker, organizer, harmoniser, renovator, manifester, recluse, explorer, inventor?
• spontaneous, playful, strategic, mechanical, procedural, impulsive, rehearsed, predictable?

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