Kolbe Index

I picked Oprah's guide to life( some book named like that) which looked like a perfect coffee table book from my friend's place. It had very interesting articles compiled together. One of the articles talked about a woman having difficulty understanding why her brilliant/smart daughter was having a hard time in school all of a sudden. Any amount of effort to help her daughter failed. She and her daughter finally figured the root cause with help of an woman called Cathy Kolbe. The narration of the incident of how her diagnosis was spot-on pushed me to check this out. I went to Kolbe's website which promises to measure your "conative" index and tell you how instinctly you behave on 4 spectrums( fact finder, implementor, follow-through and Quick Start). Her basic principle is to find/understand how you innately react/behave and leverage the upside of that behavior.

In a nutshell, you will lead a happier/healthier/successful life if you play up your strengths and not put yourself in situations unsuitable to your innate characteristics.

I went ahead and took the test. It gave an analysis report, and how I could do better and what to watch out for. Definitely worth checking out.

The definition of the 4 spectrums from the website:

Fact Finder - the instinctive way we gather and share information.
Follow Thru - the instinctive way we arrange and design.
Quick Start - the instinctive way we deal with risk and uncertainty.
Implementor - the instinctive way we handle space and tangibles