DISC Test (2013)

http://www.123test.com/id=fa8b8ad0e257f1c02013

Oh well.. This didn't change too much, but good enough.

Introduction

Your specific distribution of scores on the DISC personality test is an indication of your unique personality. You can think of this as your DISC Personality 'DNA'. In the pie chart below you see your distribution of scores.

The highest percentage is likely to be your most dominant personality factor, the second highest your next most dominant personality factor and so on. As such for you the DISC factors are ordered as: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance.

DISC Personality Model

To help you understand the DISC model of personality here are definitions of the four factors measured.

Dominance	Describes the way you deal with problems, assert yourself and control situations.
Influence	Describes the way you deal with people, the way you communicate and relate to others.
Steadiness	Describes your temperament - patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness
Compliance	Describes how you approach and organize your activity, procedures and responsibilities.

Your DISC personality type

Your unique sequence of scores characterizes you in a specific way. The positive impact you are likely to make on people is:

You have a strong inner motivation to influence people and circumstances. You thrive on competitive situations and challenging assignments.
The stresses and pressures of everyday work and life are unlikely to reduce your effectiveness and enthusiasm.

DISC Patterns or Profiles

As you will appreciate, there are literally thousands of different combinations of scores. Therefore to help interpretation, communication and understanding, DISC Personality Model experts have defined - through statistical analysis of the score combinations - fifteen DISC 'Patterns' or 'Profiles'.

The 'Profiles' are often given names. The objective of these names is to give a single descriptive term that captures the essence of that Profile. Names often used are Achiever, Coach, Evaluator, Counselor, Creative, Individualist, Inspirational, Investigator, Objective Thinker, Perfectionist, Persuader, Practitioner, Enthusiast, Results-Oriented or Specialist

To understand the DISC theory even further descriptions are given for people who score comparatively high and comparatively low on each of the four DISC dimensions.

Dominance

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high in Dominance:

• enjoy competition and challenge.
• are goal orientated and want to be recognised for their efforts.
• aim high, want authority and are generally resourceful and adaptable.
• are usually self-sufficient and individualistic.
• may lose interest in projects once the challenge has gone and they tend to be impatient and dissatisfied with minor detail.

They are usually direct and positive with people, enjoying being the centre of attraction and may take it for granted that people will think highly of them.
They may have a tendency to be rather critical of others. Consequently, other people may tend to see them as being rather domineering and overpowering.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low in Dominance:

• tend to want peace and harmony.
• prefer to let others initiate action and resolve problems.
• are quiet and indirect in their approach to most situations.
• are usually cautious and calculate risks carefully before acting.

They are generally well liked because of their mild and gentle nature. Other people will tend to see them as being patient, calm, thoughtful and a good listener.

Influence

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high in Influence:

• are strongly interested in meeting and being with people.
• are generally optimistic, outgoing, and socially skilled.
• are quick at establishing relationships.

Sometimes their concern for people and people's feelings may make them reluctant to disturb a favourable situation or relationship.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low in Influence:

• are usually socially passive.
• quite frequently have an affinity for things, machinery and equipment.
• are generally comfortable working alone.
• frequently have a tendency to be analytical and once they have sorted the facts out they communicate them in a straightforward direct way.
• tend to take little at face value.

They may well have learned and developed good social skills but they only bring these into play when logic dictates such tactics.

Steadiness

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high in Steadiness:

• are usually patient, calm and controlled.
• have a high willingness to help others particularly those they consider as friends.

Generally they have the ability to deal with the task in hand and to do routine work with patience and care.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low in Steadiness:

• tend to enjoy change and variety in their work and non-work life.
• are expansive by nature and tend not to like routine and repetitive work/activities.

They enjoy stretching themselves intellectually and physically.

Compliance

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high in Compliance:

• are usually peaceful and adaptable.
• tend not to be aggressive.
• tend to be cautious rather than impulsive.
• avoid risk-taking.
• act in a tactful, diplomatic way and strive for a stable, ordered life.
• are comfortable following procedures in both their personal and business life.

They prefer sticking to methods that have proved successful in the past. They have a high acceptance of rules and regulations.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low in Compliance:

• are independent and uninhibited.
• resent rules and restrictions.
• prefer to be measured by results and are always willing to try the untried.

Free in thought, word and deed, they long for freedom and go to great lengths to achieve it.
They feel that repetitive detail and routine work is best "delegated" or avoided.

Career test result (2013)

http://www.123test.com/id=e101387d1f5101f09

While I'm at it, I tried this new test and find it funny...

In this test you had to choose between pictures showing specific work activities. Each picture depicted work associated with a specific type of personality. These types are derived from Dr. John Holland's theory of careers and vocational choice, known as Holland Codes.

There are six personality types in Holland's model:

• Realistic: practical, physical, concrete, hands-on, machine, and tool-oriented
• Investigative: analytical, intellectual, scientific, explorative, thinker
• Artistic: creative, original, independent, chaotic, inventive, media, graphics, and text
• Social: cooperative, supporting, helping, healing/nurturing, teaching
• Enterprising: competitive environments, leadership, persuading, status
• Conventional: detail-oriented, organizing, clerical

Personality types and Holland Codes

Dr. Holland did not say that a person is just one of these types. Then there would be only six types of people in the world. Instead, any one person can have interests associated with all of the six types. When you rank the types, starting with those you have the most interest in to those you have the least interest in, you get your specific Holland Code.

There are some 720 different combinations possible, like ISERAC, AIRSEC, or CSERIA. Generally, however, only two or three letters are necessary to create a useful description, such as SC, IRC, or AIC. Such a description may apply to both a person and a work environment. By typifying both people and work environments with Holland Codes, we can calculate matches between them. This helps you assess a potential career or vocational choice.

Your personality type

You preferred 'Artistic' the most, followed by 'Enterprising' and 'Conventional'. Your six letter personality type is 'AECISR'. Your personal preference is also shown in a graph below.

Your personal Holland Code

Depending on how strongly you favor any specific type you can compose your own personal Holland Code. You do this by taking the first letters of the types you favor most. In your case, this is the letters A, E and C Your personal Holland Code then becomes either AEC, AE, EA or even EAC.

Your jobs

Here is a list of jobs that fit your Holland code AECISR. The list is only part of all jobs that fit your personality. You should use this list of occupations as prototypical examples. A total of 20 occupations are suggested based on your score.

Your list of suggested occupations
	Editors Plan, coordinate, or edit content of material for publication. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication. Includes technical editors.
	Reporters and Correspondents Collect and analyze facts about newsworthy events by interview, investigation, or observation. Report and write stories for newspaper, news magazine, radio, or television.
	Art Directors Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual communications media, such as print, broadcasting, and advertising. Direct workers engaged in art work or layout design.
	Copy Writers Write advertising copy for use by publication or broadcast media to promote sale of goods and services.
	Technical Writers Write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions. May assist in layout work.
	Set and Exhibit Designers Design special exhibits and movie, television, and theater sets. May study scripts, confer with directors, and conduct research to determine appropriate architectural styles.
	Commercial and Industrial Designers Develop and design manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.
	Advertising and Promotions Managers Plan, direct, or coordinate advertising policies and programs or produce collateral materials, such as posters, contests, coupons, or give-aways, to create extra interest in the purchase of a product or service for a department, an entire organization, or on an account basis.
	Broadcast News Analysts Analyze, interpret, and broadcast news received from various sources.
	Graphic Designers Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
	Music Directors Direct and conduct instrumental or vocal performances by musical groups, such as orchestras or choirs.
	Interior Designers Plan, design, and furnish interiors of residential, commercial, or industrial buildings. Formulate design which is practical, aesthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity, selling merchandise, or improving life style. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.
	Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers Create original written works, such as scripts, essays, prose, poetry or song lyrics, for publication or performance.
	Public Relations and Fundraising Managers Plan, direct, or coordinate activities designed to create or maintain a favorable public image or raise issue awareness for their organization or client; or if engaged in fundraising, plan, direct, or coordinate activities to solicit and maintain funds for special projects or nonprofit organizations.
	Talent Directors Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, radio, or motion picture productions.
	Interpreters and Translators Interpret oral or sign language, or translate written text from one language into another.
	Producers Plan and coordinate various aspects of radio, television, stage, or motion picture production, such as selecting script, coordinating writing, directing and editing, and arranging financing.
	Public Relations Specialists Engage in promoting or creating an intended public image for individuals, groups, or organizations. May write or select material for release to various communications media.
	Proofreaders and Copy Markers Read transcript or proof type setup to detect and mark for correction any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors. Includes proofreaders of Braille.
	Choreographers Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.

Work Value Test (2013)

http://www.123test.com/id=dc875fb5f0dd01e2c

Looking back, I always do these things whenever I'm unemployed. And every single year. Lol

So, here's the result, which is different than last year's one.

Security/Stability

For these people, long-term security is important. A job is seen mainly as a means to secure a pension and a mortgage. The level of income is seen as less important than the security of an income and being able to hold on to a job. These people often look at how stable a company is when choosing a job. Reducing financial insecurity is important to people who find this career value important.

Power

These people like to be the ones pulling the strings. Power and influence are important aspects in their careers. They are driven by the desire to control or influence others, the environment, or the situation. In their career choices, the question of whether or not a job will give them more influence is the most important. They enjoy networking and to them, befriending or contacting someone new is often a way of gaining more influence.

Service/Dedication to a Cause

This person's most important value is the desire to contribute to the greater good. Based on personal values and norms, this person wants to "improve the world" or contribute to society in a meaningful way. This person will often set aside his/her own interests. Service-oriented people are driven by how they can help others.

Wealth

Wealth is related to the importance an individual attaches to material gain. Making money is often the most important reason for working. A high income and earning ever more money is an important career value and it determines a person's career choices. For such a person, a high or higher income is an important measure of success.

Autonomy/Independence

Autonomy can be an important value. People who find this value important have a need for independence and want to be able to make their own decisions. It should not come as a surprise that these people often are, or want to be their own boss. Their career choices are determined by the degree to which they can work autonomously and according to their own rules.

Status

Impressing others and prestige are primary motivators. This person likes being a member of a privileged group. Formal recognition of accomplishments is appreciated. They like to be looked up to. Status symbols, such as titles and official recognitions, are openly displayed. Making money or gaining power are not goals in and of themselves, but are more often just a way to obtain status.

Technical/Functional Competence

These individuals like being good at something. They are usually inquisitive and want to be perceived as the expert, the company's specialist. Specialists prefer to work on their own. Using their skills to meet a challenge is important to them.

Entrepreneurial Creativity

This person's main goal is to come up with new ideas or products. The important aspect of this value is being innovative. A procedural work environment that leaves little room for personal initiatives will be experienced as very restrictive. Creative people often prefer to work alone or in small teams.

Social Relationships

Social relationships are very important to people who find this career value important. Sociability and friendship are important reasons to have a job. There is no sharp boundary between work and private life. These people's career choices are driven by whether they will have or meet enough colleagues. How much they like their job, depends on the degree to which they can work with others and meet people.

Still Heart

I thought my heart had died

Along with my own parting words

Unable to feel anymore

A void that is expected

Been a short time, it seems

Yet it long enough

Time is playing with me

Memory simply fading

I thought my heart had lost

Along with the misery it brought

Darkness so dark it’s blinding

And the way unseen

Lost in the wave of confusion

Don’t wanna fight it anymore

Hiding behind the time

Truth exposed once again

Reality tossed my heart once again

To my embrace it came back

Fragile yet willful

Breathing into life once again

No, it never dies

It simply on pause

It waits for a moment

It waits for a chance

A simple touch

A gentle hand

A time to spend

Or else to show

Once again, this heart of mine is beating

Once again, it gets shaken

A stranger, he is not

But I am grateful for him

A lover, he might not

Time has not give the answer

All I want to is to enjoy

The time that is given to me

A friend, he will always be

For he is the one who is dear

Losing him I cannot bear

For he is the one who find me

A fortune I cannot give

A song I cannot sing

All I can do is just this

Putting my heart all in here

Bible Study Time: Faith

I am not the one who really pays any attention to the words of God before. Yes, I even tried my best to waste lots of my time not to read His words and pondering about it. But in fact, the words of His never really leave me and even often giving me courage. So I am trying my best to share it to the people who might have the chance to read this. I am not a saint, I had my share of doing bad things too, but I am learning to become a better person. I am not trying to put my way of seeing things, but I also put my foot on how people in average see things. I cannot compare each and every religion because I’m not studying all of those, so I simply put what I know of, which is Christianity.

If you asked me how I choose what I believe in, I would say that it is a “faith”. I simply choose to have faith in what I believe in. What is faith?

Dictionary version would be:

faith  /fāTH/

Noun Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. Synonyms  belief - trust - confidence - credence – credit

And yes, even in the Bible said so too:

Now FAITH is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1)

So basically, people in this world choose their each and every god they believe in just because of the faith they have in it and not because of what they have seen. But how does one know which to believe? Which to put their faith into? And how does it become a religion? It must be because they hear something about it, and then trying to put a word about it too, to everyone that cares to hear it. It also the same thing like how one idolize someone. They know, they see, and they telltale it to everyone.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17)

Then, why do people choose to have faith in something that is not scientifically proven? Simply it is because they seek salvation. Because they don’t know what lies after they die. Because no one that they know of, that is close to them, came back from the death to tell the tale of what lies ahead.

Within the Bible, there’s also saying something like that.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—(Ephesians 2:8)

But then, even if one already put his faith in one thing, believing that everything will run smoothly for them, they will also found problem arises in their live. “Shit happens” is the common term. And yet you said: “But I already believe in Him!” Yes. You did. Well done. But what makes you different then? It’s what you will do with the faith you have in you.

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! (James 2:19)

What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (James 2:14)

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. (James 2:24)

Everything in this world has its reason. Whatever problem you encounter, if you can make through it, you will be able to learn something from it. You gain wisdom, experience, and remember how to get out if you encounter the same problem again.

Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. (Psalm 71:20)

Because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. (James 1:3)

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you. (1 Peter 5: 7-10)

We often doubt about what we believe in. Whether it is true?  Will it change later on to be something we don’t desire? And there are many other questions that may pop up in the time of sufferings. I assure you that God has not substance, therefore He is unseen. But why do you want to believe it? Why you want to put your faith in Him? Because He is, what you’re not.

God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill? (Numbers 23:19)

Within believe that we put our faith into, we surely expecting something to happen. Just like you idolizing someone, you hope that you can get autograph or a selca (self-camera) with the idol, or even be a friend. But how does that happen or apply in the faith sector of God? The answer is simple. It is prayer.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7)

But in prayer, there is something that is required for it to be fulfilled. The most simple, but hardest way to do it is what our topic today is. There are many verses in the Bible that are basically saying the same thing. Have faith in what you are asking.

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.(Matthew 21:22)

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24)

And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)

He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you. (Luke 17:6)

So, in the end, what we believe in, everything that we wanted to be happening in our life, all of those are based on one simple thing. Our own understanding about faith and what we do in its place.

May all of you have a blessed day ahead :)

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)

Movie Review: As One

Just finished watching a Korean movie called “As One” and I totally didn’t expect it to be good. Truthfully saying, I’m not the one that enjoys watching sport-theme drama, but the main actress is a good one so I ended up downloading it. The story itself is about table tennis tournament, based on the real event on 1991.

Korea was originally divided into 2 nations, North and South since years ago. And they have been losing the gold medal to China. Being a rival in every single aspect in their life, one day they decided to join force and go as one nation, Korea. The uptight nature of North and the easy-going one of South is not easy to overcome. They fought each other with their own characters, but what unite them is only one. Their love for sport.

During the championship in Chiba, Japan, they bond their friendship, even there is love blossomed. They became solid in each and every growing day. I don’t want to spoil the whole story, so I’ll just recommend it.

Have fun.