As part of the NSF "Assembling, Visualising and Analysing the Tree of Life" Ideas Lab that I took part in earlier this week I had an assessment of my "problem solving style" carried out using a service called FourSight. I'm hugely sceptical of attempts to classify people (I'm unique, aren't I?), but I took the test and turns out am an "Ideator". FourSight's web site defines an Ideator as one who:
Details schmetails, it's the big picture folks!
Ideators are:
Liking this. OK, how do you care for ideators? We need:
That's right, leave us alone to think our great thoughts. Result! Then there's this totally superfluous category "Ideators annoy others by...".
Utter, utter, nonsense. Look at my blog, it's full of ideas that have been developed fully... oh, wait. And, maybe the blog thing is a bit attention seeking, and I guess saying "it sucks" is a tad impatient, and saying to a crowd of taxonomists "haven't we basically found every species bigger than my coffee cup?" is a little off-the-wall.
Good job these psychometric thingies are clearly bogus.
- Likes to look at the big picture
- Enjoys toying with ideas and possibilities
- Likes to stretch his or her imagination
- Enjoys thinking in more global and abstract terms
- Takes an intuitive approach to innovation
- May overlook details
Details schmetails, it's the big picture folks!
Ideators are:
- Playful
- Imaginative
- Social
- Adaptable
- Flexible
- Adventurous
- Independent
Liking this. OK, how do you care for ideators? We need:
- Room to be playful
- Constant stimulation
- Variety and change
- The big picture
That's right, leave us alone to think our great thoughts. Result! Then there's this totally superfluous category "Ideators annoy others by...".
- Drawing attention to themselves
- Being impatient when others don’t get their ideas
- Offering ideas that are too off-the-wall
- Being too abstract
- Not sticking to one idea
Utter, utter, nonsense. Look at my blog, it's full of ideas that have been developed fully... oh, wait. And, maybe the blog thing is a bit attention seeking, and I guess saying "it sucks" is a tad impatient, and saying to a crowd of taxonomists "haven't we basically found every species bigger than my coffee cup?" is a little off-the-wall.
Good job these psychometric thingies are clearly bogus.