What color are you?
Posted in Self Reflection by RB on March 6th, 2008 One of my friends pointed several of us to the Lûscher color quiz. Whether it’s the MBTI, color tests, fortune cookies, or tea leaves, we can all look to something and find some reflection of ourselves in it. The color quiz, however, captured enough truth about me that my friends were both frightened by and in agreement with the results.
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RB took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!
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The results are true enough. One person said it made her sad to read the results, and another said that I sounded very intense. Both are true. Some of the phrases of the results give words to feelings for which I have had none:
- Feels in an invidious position: that trust, affection, and understanding are being withheld…Feels he is getting nowhere; that, instead of the admiration he needs, he is consistently misunderstood. Wants to escape from the situation…
- Circumstances are forcing him to compromise, to restrain his demands and hopes, and to forgo for the time being some of the things he wants.
- Intense, vital, and animated, taking a delight in action.
- Wants to act freely and uninhibitedly, but is restrained by his need to have things on a rational, consistent, and clearly-defined basis.
- The tensions…have led to…a sense of personal (but unadmitted) inadequacy.
Sadly, the above are all true. I am an intense person who likes to do things, but it’s hard to free myself to do anything because of the boys. Work is contributing to the feelings of inadequacy. And lately I have put aside all of my hobbies which gave me a sense of accomplishment (playing music, remodeling our house, playing ultimate frisbee) in exchange for those which require less effort (like enjoying fine food and drink prepared by someone else or smoking a pipe with friends).
When you add all of this to the other underlying problems that I have been working on lately (and about which I will eventually post), it’s not a fun time to be me right now. It’s an eye opening time of self-reflection, but I am ready for this phase to be over and to see what I’m like on the other side of it.
Final note - the Lûscher test is 50 years old, and it is a real and serious psychological test. The book makes it clear that it is “not a parlor game.” It’s not the kind of thing to do while drinking with acquaintances. This is something to either disregard altogether, or, better yet, to discuss with real friends who love you and can talk with openly and honestly.
