This month, Platinum columnist and Loose Women presenter Jane Moore comes to a logical conclusion about her personality.
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My daughters sent me an online personality test* recently, along with the accompanying prediction that my outcome from the 16 options would be “logistician”.
I answered honestly – my logical brain tells me that, otherwise, there’s no point – and they were spot on. “Logisticians are practical and fact-minded individuals, whose reliability cannot be doubted”, the written conclusion informed me.
PERSONA BY NUMBERS
But just as my head was starting to swell, there were a few stats that were open to slightly less flattering interpretation. On the assertive-to-turbulent scale, I scored 90 per cent assertive. Now of course, this can be a good thing in certain circumstances, such as asking for a pay rise or refusing to tolerate someone’s bad behaviour. I have always been quite ballsy in both scenarios.
But could it also mean that I’m too quick to railroad someone less assertive into following my lead on something when they might step up to the challenge if given time to do so? Maybe. Food for thought.
On the judging-to-prospecting scale, I was 85 per cent judging, which sounds awful if you take it in the pejorative “judgy” way, but I think it means that I prefer to organise my life in advance while a “prospector” prefers to make decisions in the moment. So I’ll take that. I love to-do lists and the second that, say, a trip abroad is confirmed, I’ll book the flights and accommodation so I can file it under “sorted” in my head.
For observant/intuitive, I was 60 per cent observant, for thinking/feeling, 62 per cent thinking, and for introverted/extroverted, I was 64 per cent introverted. All of which rings true to me. Even though I appear on television, which suggests I’m extroverted, I’m a journalist and we usually facilitate others to tell their stories by taking a backseat ourselves. Also, I’m very happy in my own company, which, quite frankly, I consider to be a superpower.
SPOILER ALERT!
But back to the logical brain. It makes me great on a team-building treasure hunt because I’m a handy ally when you need a complex situation unpicking. But it can make me a bit of a pedant in a discussion when I think there’s something illogical that I can’t let rest. It also makes me a nightmare to watch an escapist movie with. When the protagonist always manages to get a park
