What is your Varna?
Following is an exercise I did at a course I attended a while ago. It says it describes your "communication style". But I think it groups people in four different "varnas" or personalities. See where you belong!
According to psychologist Carl Jung, we all have a preferred communication style. To find out yours, write a "4" besides the response which best describes you, a "3" for the next best, a "2" for the next best and a "1" for the one which least describes you.
It would be helpful if you take a pen/pencil and a piece of paper. Ready?
1) I am likely to impress others as:
_____ a) Intellectual
_____ b) A good friend
_____ c) Detail-oriented
_____ d) Practical
2) When working on projects, I prefer them to be:
_____ a) Designed to contribute
_____ b) Stimulating
_____ c) Well-planned
_____ d) Results-oriented
3) My time is important so I want to make sure that:
_____ a) I am well prepared for the future
_____ b) My actions will be meaningful to others
_____ c) I plan well and follow my plan
_____ d) What I do today counts
4) I feel satisfied when I:
_____ a) Can connect one idea with another
_____ b) Can be helpful to a friend or a family member
_____ c) Can solve a problem by really thinking it through
_____ d) Get more done than I had planned
5) I enjoy it when others see me as:
_____ a) Bright, with a vision
_____ b) Warm and approachable
_____ c) Someone who knows what he/she is doing
_____ d) A persons who gets things done
6) When others pressure me, I am:
_____ a) Prone to step back into my own thoughts
_____ b) Apt to show my true feelings
_____ c) Inclined to be critical of them
_____ d) Linkely to react immediately
Now add up all the a) scores, then b) and so on:
a) _____ Intuiter (Brahman) b) _____ Thinker (Vaishya)
c) _____ Feeler (Shudra) d) _____ Doer (Kshatriya)
Of course, these are just basic questions. Some organizations conduct rigorous tests with close to 300 questions which will truely desribe your personality. Many people, I heard, fall in combinations like Intuiter-Thinker, Does-Thinker and so on.
No one personality is bigger or smaller than others. Each has its own traits. And if you want to be in another one, you have to change your personality!!
According to psychologist Carl Jung, we all have a preferred communication style. To find out yours, write a "4" besides the response which best describes you, a "3" for the next best, a "2" for the next best and a "1" for the one which least describes you.
It would be helpful if you take a pen/pencil and a piece of paper. Ready?
1) I am likely to impress others as:
_____ a) Intellectual
_____ b) A good friend
_____ c) Detail-oriented
_____ d) Practical
2) When working on projects, I prefer them to be:
_____ a) Designed to contribute
_____ b) Stimulating
_____ c) Well-planned
_____ d) Results-oriented
3) My time is important so I want to make sure that:
_____ a) I am well prepared for the future
_____ b) My actions will be meaningful to others
_____ c) I plan well and follow my plan
_____ d) What I do today counts
4) I feel satisfied when I:
_____ a) Can connect one idea with another
_____ b) Can be helpful to a friend or a family member
_____ c) Can solve a problem by really thinking it through
_____ d) Get more done than I had planned
5) I enjoy it when others see me as:
_____ a) Bright, with a vision
_____ b) Warm and approachable
_____ c) Someone who knows what he/she is doing
_____ d) A persons who gets things done
6) When others pressure me, I am:
_____ a) Prone to step back into my own thoughts
_____ b) Apt to show my true feelings
_____ c) Inclined to be critical of them
_____ d) Linkely to react immediately
Now add up all the a) scores, then b) and so on:
a) _____ Intuiter (Brahman) b) _____ Thinker (Vaishya)
c) _____ Feeler (Shudra) d) _____ Doer (Kshatriya)
Of course, these are just basic questions. Some organizations conduct rigorous tests with close to 300 questions which will truely desribe your personality. Many people, I heard, fall in combinations like Intuiter-Thinker, Does-Thinker and so on.
No one personality is bigger or smaller than others. Each has its own traits. And if you want to be in another one, you have to change your personality!!
posted by Kshatriya at
4:47 PM
3 Comments:
This is interesting -- I have never seen personality types linked to varna before! Varna means 'colour', by the way, as well as referring to the four main Vedic castes of Brahmin (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (merchants), and Sudras (serfs). This test seems similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which is an instrument for measuring a person’s preferences, using four basic scales with opposite poles. The four scales are: (1) extraversion/introversion, (2) sensate/intuitive, (3) thinking/feeling, and (4) judging/perceiving. 'The various combinations of these preferences result in 16 personality types', say Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., owners of the rights to the instrument. Types are typically denoted by four letters to represent one's tendencies on the four scales, for example, ENTP (Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceptive) -- my own Myers-Briggs type. On your test, I scored highest [21] as Intuiter (Brahman), the same [14] for both Thinker (Vaishya) and Feeler (Shudra), and lowest [11] as Doer (Kshatriya)... which may explain why I am reading blogs instead of doing something more productive! ;-)
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ThistleStop, at Saturday, March 25, 2006 9:37:00 PM
thisletop, thanks for taking time to test your personality (as I call it)! You seem to have have good knowledge of these types of tests.
Anyway, do you have a blog? The link with your name doesnt work...
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Kshatriya, at Monday, March 27, 2006 10:36:00 AM
Hi Kshatriya, Yes I find this type of test interesting - at one time I presented a workshop about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to a large group of employees, and I have used it with students before, too. No, I don't have a blog. I enjoy reading this one and some others from time to time. I found your blog when I was looking for reviews of Rang De Basanti online, after the film came out on DVD.
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ThistleStop, at Friday, March 31, 2006 11:41:00 PM
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