In the event that you decide to apply to become an 8, the application process is fairly rigorous.
Overall, less than 7% of those who apply for recognized 8 status will in fact be successful.
Several key qualities previous successful candidates have shared include:
- Enjoyment of the smell of napalm in the morning
- A general awareness of the innermost fears and desires of those around them, as well as an intuitive knowledge of how to leverage these to get what they want
- A cultivated proficiency in the enjoyment of rare steak
- An appropriate regard for Winston Churchill
- Strong leadership and academic potential
On behalf of the committee, we thank you again for your interest and hope to look forward to your candidacy.
I will play along...
[*]Enjoyment of the smell of napalm in the morning
I started playing shooting video games at the age of 5, few years later I switched to strategy games due to more of commanding role. I can chop down a tree place the pieces on a pile and setting it on fire with joy ... I did that with my grandma all the time as a kid. I walked through possible mine fields, ventured through caves and climbed mountains.
[*]A general awareness of the innermost fears and desires of those around them, as well as an intuitive knowledge of how to leverage these to get what they want
I am not so bad at this as much as I don't want to babysit people all the time, just so that everything would turn out exactly as it "should". Just this morning I talked one person to endevour for which the person was not too interested in. My parents tease me with "Mr CEO" for years and just yesterday I was accused that I am "souless and too good with money".
[*]A cultivated proficiency in the enjoyment of rare steak
People consider me a good cook and skilled barbecue maker, I eat meat without emotional regrets.
[*]An appropriate regard for Winston Churchill
One of my core beliefs is that the greatest argument against democracy comes up in talking to average voter.
[*]Strong leadership and academic potential
I tell people what to do all the time. What should we eat, that they should hurry up, in college it was ALWAYS me who made the plan/strategy for the group and with very good results, I finnished the high school on the top of my class, I know people with influence, I speak/understand 5 languages and I plan to learn more of them, I didn't finnished college on my first language, I am future business owner, when no one is really interested I just do it myself (if I really care), I can debate politics/geopolitcs or hard science successfuly, I have also one small/extra business degree finished with straight A, back in a day when I had the time was reading up to 4 books a day ... etc.
None the less I don't see myself as that much successful since I am still pretty far from what my ambitions desire.
[MENTION=4347]Virtual ghost[/MENTION]
Have you considered 6w5? 5w6? I get an oscillation between two fixed points from your posts. As if you're measuring yourself against two outlier type behaviors that seem incongruent.
This reads 6 to me. Not 8.
8's and 6's mistype easily. Also, do you identify with the core motivation of an 8?
If so, how?
Nope I am not a 6 or have I never ever tested as one. Also what I did with my type lately is much more dramatic than I typically behave, plus it is spill from my PM talks. The truth is that it is summer and I am bored, so I write "nonesense" around the internet. 5w6 ok but 6 as core, nope.
Plus there is a fact that I was rised by 6w7 father, 7w6 mother and 6w7 grandmother so I absorbed plenty of their mentality as growing up, but I never really felt as that I naturally belong there. Education system was also heavily biased towads head types and academic pursuits. I am from the country where future chefs learn advanced math in school ... just in case they decide to become rocket engineers one day.
What is one of the main reasons why I doubt that my 5w6 tendency may be "learned". Also when you take a look at my answer to Rex it isn't that hard to imagine/understand that I just roll over people when being myself, creating the sense of isolation, elitism and detachment around me.
Everything what I typed on the topic was basically just thinking out loud, not a panic attack.