Mal12345
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(I doesn't necessarily agree with the wording used in this video.)
1. "Smart people tend to sell themselves short."
Recently my manager at work was telling how about an employee of his who was trying to get a job as a coder. He could not pass the initial job interview. The problem was that he showed a degree of uncertainty or lack of self-confidence in his ability as a coder. So my manager asked him to write a particular piece of code on the blackboard, and he handled it with ease. Maybe he was a stutterer? I just don't think job interviewers should be rating job candidates on their ability to sell themselves.
2. "You have an insatiable curiosity."
But sometimes with a short attention span as curiosity runs amok.
3. "You often worry."
I don't just worry, I often worry about worrying.
4. "You tend to forget things."
I always never forget to forget things. Wait a minute, what was I just saying?
5. "You can be funny."
I was explaining to my neighbor at work how to find out if there are really such things as Bigfoot and magical forest creatures such as the unicorn. I stated that we should limit the habitat these forest creatures inhabit by incrementally killing trees until the amount of forest in the world is limited to one small copse of trees. He finished my story by saying, "Then drop a boulder on it."
6. "You enjoy reading."
It depends on the subject matter. If it leads to learning new things, then yes, even if there is no practical use for the subject matter.
7. "You prefer to be messy."
Is it a preference, or a way of life?
Messiness has for a long time been thought to be a sign of creativity, even of creative genius. I can pick one thing out of a pile, and nobody knows why I chose to pick out that one thing, except for me. Out of randomness comes order and reason.
8. "You're a real night owl."
I'm just "striving to reach the limits of my abilities," according to the video. Or maybe there's just nobody around to interrupt my thought processes late at night. It's the quiet solitude of being alone with my thoughts. I can't blaze new trails by following old ones forced on me by others.
I think in my case it was mostly school, occurring obviously during the day, to cause me to seek the night. I attended a crazy school for three years which consisted of one giant classroom divided up only by whiteboards for four separate classes. Teachers would often sit around in their teachers' lounge while the students ran amok. Sometimes I also ran amok, maybe because there was no point in trying to read, or study, or draw something. It made me stand out as "different," and inevitably someone would come along and bump into me on purpose just to make things more difficult.
9. "You love a good mental challenge."
I loved all kinds of challenges before I became half disabled.
10. "You don't always have to try hard."
I just looked at my spelling words for the week and had them memorized.
11. "You talk to yourself."
The reason I found 11 instead of 10 is that I am smarter than the person who made the video.