Follow-up test
Effective Thinking Skills
Can you think of anyone who has achieved a degree of personal success who lacks good judgement in their business?
Would you describe yourself as good at visualizing things you haven’t directly experienced yourself?
Has anyone praised you for your imagination within the last year?
Have you invented or made anything recently, at work or in your leisure time, that definitely required imagination?
Do you tend to foresee accurately what happens before the event?
Where possible, do you build into your plans time to ‘sleep on it’, so as to give your depth mind an opportunity to contribute?
Do you deliberately seek to employ your depth mind to help you to:
- Analyze a complex situation?
- Restructure a problem?
- Reach value judgements?
Clear Thinking
Has anyone commented in the last year on your clarity of mind?
Apart from your analytical skills, are you also able to think holistically, to see the whole wood and not just the trees?
Have you experienced waking up the next morning to find that your unconscious mind has resolved a problem or made a decision for you?
Do you see your depth mind as being like a personal computer? Remember the computer proverb: Garbage in, garbage out.
Do you think you can benefit from understanding how other people’s depth minds work?
Can you think of three instances when you have trusted your intuition and acted on it?
Truth
In an argument about what to do, does the love of truth guide you, or is winning more important?
Do you always prefer to know the reality of your situation, or to be deceived by specious hopes?
How important for you is the quality of intellectual integrity when you are choosing people to be managers?