« The Will To Survive Is Bred In The Bone... | Main | Can We Go To Alberta Tonight? »

Thinker Quiz: What Kind Of Thinker Are You?

Can't remember who first pointed out the link, but a lot of people on my blog list have been taking the Thinker Quiz. Here are the results of mine:

You are a Musical Thinker

Musical thinkers:

  • Tend to think in sounds, and may also think in rhythms and melodies
  • Are sensitive to the sounds and rhythms of words as well as their meanings.
  • Feel a strong connection between music and emotions

    Like many musical thinkers, Leonardo loved to sing, and had a fine voice Other Musical Thinkers include
    Mozart, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix

    Careers which suit Musical Thinkers include
    Musician, Music teacher, Sound engineer, Recording technician


    Well, that's quite interesting. There are several things that are noteworthy about this:

  • Music is what ultimately makes me tick. No matter what I do in the information technology world, there's still nothing that comes close to the feeling of satisfaction I get when I listen to or produce good music. My life goal is to retire early enough to spend the rest of my life involved in music in some way.

  • I didn't slant my answers toward this conclusion because honestly I didn't really think it would be the outcome. I thought I was a much more analytical thinker.

  • I found this link being passed around by a bunch of programmers / information technology people - most of them Microsoft employees. It's amazing how many of them also came up as Musical Thinkers.

    Why are so many technical people also musical? I think I answered that question several months ago when I began to immerse myself in sound engineering at church. I realized that sound engineering provides me with all of the things I like about technology (i.e. lots of technical stuff to learn and plenty of technical challenges; oh and plenty of gear to buy), but it also provides me with a larger audience that can actually appreciate what I do.

    With computer technology, I can configure that Windows Server 2003 box with IIS 6.0 and get SharePoint Portal Server v2b2 up and running with InfoPath XML integration, but who the heck cares, or can appreciate what it took to make that happen. Not many! Now, I don't do things to get noticed, but it does add to the satisfaction equation to have people occasionally say, "Wow, that sounded great." Nobody ever says "Wow, that's a great class you wrote in C# using the .NET CLR."

    [Listening to: Seventy Sevens - Snake (from Drowning With Land In Sight)]

    • Posted by Steve on May 2, 2003 04:48 PM |

    Comments

    I got the same outcome Steve, maybe it runs in the family. Like I said to you eariler, "I'm somewhere between the PC world and CDMA Wireless, with a guitar in the middle"

    ...or something to that extent!

    Posted by: David Mouland | May 2, 2003 06:19 PM

    Post a comment

    (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)