{"id":246,"date":"2013-04-25T00:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.wordpress.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2013-04-25T00:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:05:33","slug":"who-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"9.11\"<\/a><\/strong>One of my favorite places to go is the book store.\u00a0 I could literally browse around in there for hours. To this day, my favorite first date was at a Barnes & Noble.\u00a0 Granted, it didn\u2019t keep me around, but I\u2019ll always remember that weirdo<\/span> young man.\u00a0 Anywho, about a week or so ago I picked up a book titled Archetype:\u00a0 Who Are You?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The premise of the book is that everyone can be categorized in one primary bucket of characteristics or personality traits. The author identifies ten categories in all: the Caregiver, the Artist\/Creative, the Fashionista, the Intellectual, the Rebel, the Queen\/Executive, the Advocate, the Visionary, the Athlete, and the Spiritual Seeker.<\/p>\n

The theory is that once you know your archetypes, you can then use this knowledge to make more conscious decisions about everything from careers to relationships, avoiding pitfalls of your personality type, playing up your strengths.<\/p>\n

At first glance I pegged myself as Creative or even Visionary – something cool, right?\u00a0 Once I took the test, I did see that I in fact do have some traits in those categories, but my primary archetype was Intellectual.\u00a0 Really????\u00a0 (Isn’t it always interesting to compare your perception of yourself to what you really are.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I think of myself is fairly trendy, in the know, not quite straight-laced.\u00a0 So I of course retook the test (after I semi-pouted). Needless to say, same results.<\/p>\n

After I dismissed the book and took a TV break, I eventually conducted a real inventory of myself.\u00a0 While I do enjoy a random portfolio of trendy items \u2013 clothes, food, diets, gadgets \u2013 I\u2019m the same person who wrote down the time when the Dick Cheney documentary came on Showtime.\u00a0 I also get pissed when people interrupt my viewing of Bill Maher.\u00a0 And oh yeah, I program my phone to receive a word of the day from dictionary.com so I can expand my vocabulary. Hoo-hum (head hangs down).\u00a0 I guess I am a geek\u2026 or more politely put, I am most definitely an Intellectual.\u00a0 Fine, case closed.\u00a0 If you’d like to find your archetype, feel free to take the same test I took HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, with that in mind, here\u2019s something you may find interesting too. I am completely fascinated by the challenges the US faces \u2013 economic, educational, tragedies, etc.\u00a0 (I know you\u2019re thinking how could this chick possibly think that the Intellectual category wasn\u2019t an option.\u00a0 However friend, you have digressed.)<\/i>\u00a0 Yesterday, Rachel Maddow endorsed the book 9\/11 Report: A Graphic Adaption<\/strong> as one of the best books on 9\/11. \u00a0It\u2019s not a new book, but what it does is takes the final 9\/11 National Commission report and puts it in a comic book format.\u00a0 I know it’s werid, but I think it works.\u00a0 It\u2019s geared toward those who don\u2019t have the patience or time to read large volumes of text.\u00a0 The graphics make it more informative, more available, and more likely to be read in its entirety.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an Amazon link if you\u2019re interested<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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