What shape are you?

I wanted to share something quick, AWESOME AND FUN!

Learn more about yourself in 30 seconds than many people learn in years.

Look at the picture and choose which shape you feel most connected to.

If you want to go advanced, number them from 1-5 to discover what other secondary talents you may have.

ONLY ONCE YOU HAVE CHOSEN YOU CAN READ ON!
(don’t spoil the truth, choose your shape first)

I have seen this in many places, but most recently it was shared with me from Grant Mullen who learnt it from Philip Gould.

Which did you choose?  This is what they mean about you:

TRIANGLE

• Dominant personality type
• Can be seen as bullies, especially if you are a Circle
• They communicate quickly, clearly and to the point
• Don’t waste time with personal relationships or chit-chat
• Like logical, efficiently presented data based evidence
• Appreciate WHAT based questions
• Fast decision makers and enjoy choices to make their own decisions
• Once they’ve chosen they don’t appreciate further discussion
• Don’t care for guarantees, they expect you will do what you say
• Look for win or win-win opportunities
• Appreciate challenges
• Big picture thinkers, hate the details
• Often Leaders and Entrepreneurs
• Seek efficiency, speed and action
• Want to get to the point quickly
• Shoot from the hip and back it up with feelings
• Biggest challenge is listening to everything and not interrupting with a reply

CIRCLE

• The people person, well liked and funny
• Big picture thinkers but can suffer from low self-esteem
• Like to dream
• Caring and sensitive to others
• Can seek significance
• Don’t like to be ruled over or controlled
• Like conversation, not curt or cold interaction
• Focus on goals can be useful
• Enjoy being appreciated and acknowledged
• Often avoids risk
• Love to talk things through
• Need team and positive personal feedback
• Traits shown Perfectionist and Self-sabotage
• Biggest challenge is overcoming the fear of offending others
• Great listeners, when they stop talking long enough to listen to others

SQUARE

• Often recognised as a Square
• Appreciate rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
• In the box thinker needing facts, data and logical proof
• Doesn’t typically like casual conversation
• Doesn’t like to be forced in to a quick decision
• Will not like decisions based on opinion or feelings
• Likes sentences such as: does that make sense, does that add up, is that ticking the boxes
• Likes time and information to make an informed decision
• May not like to be touched
• Can struggle to think on their feet or outside the box
• Love order and consistency, don’t like other peoples new ideas (Why change what works?)
• Need to recognise that change is not their enemy (and not be told)
• Traditionalist but often love technology because of it’s systematic results
• Balanced but at times can be viewed as negative
• Analytical, make their own decisions and resist outside change

RECTANGLE

• In a state of change in your life!  (moving from one thing to another)
• You may subconsciously see the rectangle as a door or bridge
• Right now you need love, support and listening
• Don’t want to be kept in your past or forced in to your future
• Biggest challenge is setting clear intentions, where you are going
• Mind could be somewhere else, goal setting can help you find direction

SQUIGGLE

• The motherly archetype
• Talk soft, slow and lovingly
• Use personal comments to break the ice
• Appreciate it when others show interest in you as person
• Don’t like being forced into outcomes or decisions
• Like people to present logically, softly and not threatening
• Don’t like being threatened with position, power or demand
• Like HOW questions
• Don’t interrupt me
• Be casual with me, almost informal
• Team players, don’t mistake our willingness to go along as satisfaction
• Need guarantees and assurances
• Don’t like to be pushed, can appear stubborn
• Need time and space to figure it out for themselves
• Can be overloaded with information
• Don’t let them down, squiggles will close the door on you
• Often poor at grey areas or record keeping
• Say yes now and figure out how later
• They like to feel
• They can appreciate challenges, freshness and new ideas
• Don’t like routines, systems and timeframes
• They can work with them but they don’t work well
• Biggest challenge is to not throw the baby out with the bath water
• Have some issues sticking to outcomes and finishing
• Speed they took to commit is the speed they will often exit
• Behaviour the shutting a door behind them
• Incredibly loayal and emotionally attached to outcomes
• Great at relationships & liked by almost everyone
• Great at long lasting relationships

Now that you’ve had some fun and learnt some insights, how can you going to apply this to your business to improve your result?

Article by Ross Pepper.