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February 5, 2006
Self Discovery
How do you respond to a threatening situation? Which reptilain response is characteristic of your style? Fight, Flight, Freeze, Food or Sex? According to the Assessment in "Who Are You: 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself" by Malcom Godwin my style is "flight". To find yours, answer the following two questions and then look at the key underneath to find your style.
Your attractive companion at a party gets drunk and behaves very embarrassingly to the other guests.
Do you:
1. Become aggresive and force him or her to leave?
2. Quietly withdraw?
3. Get bored and find the buffet?
4. Find you are sexually excited by the wild behavior?
5. Become helplessly embarrassed and do absolutely nothing?
You have been told you have one day left to live.
Do you:
1. Rage against death and try to find a way to avoid it happening?
2. Ignore it all and carry on as if nothing is going to happen?
3. Throw a party and eat the finest meal you can buy?
4. Throw a wild party and make love to as many partners as possible?
5. Sit alone, paralyzed by fear?
KEY: 1 = Fight, 2 = Flight, 3 = Food, 4 = Sex, 5 = Freeze
I really didn't think I was a runner, but after much introspection, I've come to grips with the reality. The epiphany that brought me to terms with this revelation came this afternoon in the memory of a conversation some years ago. A good friend asked me why I always cracked a joke when something made me uncomfortable. It struck me today that using humor to deal with an awkward situation is a form of withdrawing, or, in other words, Flight.
If self-discovery is your thing, this book is full of fun ways of finding you. It's a quick and easy read, but I can't say every assessment makes sense to me, for example, I'm still working on which animal lives in my heart, it's either the dog or the rat.
Posted by Anna at February 5, 2006 7:28 PM
Comments
hey anna!
can you guess which one i am? in both cases i picked "food". :)
no wonder i'm turning into a butterball.
maybe you could come over here during your "flight" and i could cook you something. :)
Posted by: jen Lemen at February 9, 2006 6:41 AM
Anna,
I am totally flight. Ask me about sprinting from the emergency room with a nurse behind me saying "come back, he's gonna need you here when he wakes up"!
Posted by: Gloria at March 6, 2006 12:01 PM
That's a story I have to hear!
Posted by: Anna at March 6, 2006 12:46 PM