Like Ruhollah Khomeini, you are a visionary and a moralist of no mean order. You have grand ideals for society and little patience with those who do not submit to your authority. To your credit, you do not seek power for the sake of your own personal gain, but in order to serve the common good. However, the righteous ruler is also the most closed-minded one, and you would actually serve others better by listening to them more.
Words of Warning
Points to consider for people with your personality - have you ever:
- Thought you had arrived at a plan of action because you had grappled with the essence of a problem in your mind, only to discover that the practical realities were much more mundane, and much less malleable, than they were in your mind?
- Deliberately used your ability to appear stern and mysterious to throw people off course when they had a legitimate disagreement or point of protest that you did not wish them to speak aloud?
- Purposefully shrouded or misled people about your family origins in order to fuel speculation about your personality?
- Thought that your opposition to a cause was merely fueled by critical analysis and intellectual defiance when others could clearly sense that you were emotionally enraged?
- Found yourself unable to compromise and stoop to opportunism on account of your high ideals, even when it was the right thing to do?
Guilty of the fourth bullet, maybe. Not sure about the rest.
Derived Absurdity wrote:I genuinely admire and legitimately strive to reach Bruce's level of impatience and laziness. I'm not there yet, but it's a work in progress.
Like Mao Zedong, you are intellectually curious and novelty-seeking to a fault. You are bored by doing things the tried-and-true way and love nothing better than to embark on a new and challenging project. However, keep in mind that those around you may not appreciate experiments as much as you do - particularly if they will have to deal with the consequences long after you've lost interest and moved on.
Words of Warning
Points to consider for people with your personality - have you ever:
Chased after something completely new and untried because it stimulated your imagination, only to find that there were very good practical reasons that this particular solution had never been tried?
Found yourself unable to focus because you were on such an intellectual high that you positively wanted to do everything at once?
Driven others to exhaustion by seeking out argument and controversy, possibly even arguing both sides of a case just for the fun of it?
Found yourself unable "to leave well enough alone," always having to tinker and push against the boundaries just to see what would happen?
"Sweated the small stuff" and forgotten about important things like flight times, tax returns, and subscription renewals simply because you could not be bothered to deal with the nitty-gritty of practical matters?
Pretty close to me I'd say.
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." -- Carl Jung