Well,
surprise, there aren’t any more questions here, but if you clicked on
the “Next page” button to find out if there were more questions
before you entered any information on the previous page, then it shows
that you followed directions and were careful to attempt to “read everything
before doing anything,” as
Question 1
instructed. So congratulations! You passed!
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Please don’t
get caught up in trying to decipher the “meaning” of any of the
questions—even though they have a logic to them, they have all been
designed to be without any practical meaning. |
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The essence of it all is that
if you miss the initial direction of any task (and this can be taken in the
spiritual sense
as well), the work you do thereafter will be deficient.
If you learn the lesson now,
it will serve you well throughout the remainder of your life. Even though this
test does not tell much about intelligence per se, your ability to
follow directions will enhance whatever intelligence you do
have.
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I created this
test myself, but it is based on a somewhat similar test one of my teachers
gave us in junior high school. (A paper version more similar to that original
test can be found through the link below.) I failed that test back then. But I have
remembered the lesson ever since. |
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Nevertheless, even if you initially failed
the test, if you have patiently read my explanation here and have gained
some wisdom from it, then, ultimately, you have passed a test. Thankfully,
we can learn even from our
mistakes.[1]
After all, this is what most characterizes a real psychological test:
an encounter
with the unexpected that reveals more about ourselves than logic and reason
can tell us.
In contrast, those who grumble
angrily that I have
wasted their time really have failed a test—the test of graciously accepting
wise correction. Sadly, such persons will continue to fail many more tests throughout
their lives until they come to terms with what drives their anger: the
unconscious resentments
that linger from their childhood emotional pain.
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1. Alfred Whitehead spoke about intelligence as
something that allows us to profit from our mistakes without being slaughtered
by them. See Alfred N. Whitehead, Process and Reality. (New York:
Macmillan, 1929), p. 256.
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advertising—no sponsor—just the simple truth . . .
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