I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
I built something, and I want you to break it.
It’s called the P3Test. It’s a 10-minute assessment that tells you your PivotType. It unlocks how you’re wired to see change, what drives you through it, and how you actually make it happen.
I need data. You need self-awareness. Seems like a fair trade.
[Take the P3Test here — it’s free]
One favor: when you’re done, hit reply and tell me if it felt accurate. That feedback is worth more to me than almost anything right now.
XDI - definitely fits. There were a couple of questions where the choice made the most sense but the meaning behind it may not have fit. For example, the question about a project changing - I think I answered something about leaning in and shaping the project. I’ll do that, not because I suddenly agree with the change I’ve sensed coming but because I’m enough of a rebel not to just sit back and let someone else change something. So I want to push in and question and have my voice still heard. Being a woman of a certain age, my agreeing to bullshit and people pleasing is at about zero now. I’ve also been recently diagnosed with ADHD, which explains so many things and relieves a ton of guilt around not accomplishing more in my adult life, mostly around building businesses. I never would have suspected the ADHD in high school, and I imagine our high school friends and teachers wouldn’t have either, huh, Scott? Okay, maybe my loving theater and drinking too much was a sign. But I digress.
Throughout my life, I’ve often just jumped in and pivoted and made “rash” decisions, much to my over-planning parents’ chagrin. I think my family is now used to me making big decisions rather quickly and pivoting after setbacks. I used to worry and feel guilt about certain choices afterwards, sometimes for years! But now that I have a better understanding of how my brain works (and the afore mentioned midlife woman attitude), I don’t question and seek acceptance from others ad nauseam.
I’m excited to see more about your project!
I took it. Some of it doesn't apply to my life now as I am a disabled Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. But I see this as a good tool for a younger person to assess what drives them.
For perspective, I mostly worked in the insurance field---for seven companies over 30 years and with a nine month interval in another career. The movement in the insurance industry was because I was a compliance director. There is only one in each insurance company and the industry was consolidating in the 80s and 90s. I only ever worked for one Fortune 600 company, most of the others being small got bought out.
My interval was when the President of my small private college asked me to become the Vice-president of Development for the college. I was in charge of fund raising. He wanted me to do that job, but I learned by book and by interview that people want to hear from the President, not any Vice-president. Only foundations would listen to me. What a development Vice-president can do successfully does for a college is be the setup man for the President.
When I found a donor for all the wallpaper, we needed to finish every interior of every building and brought it back ecstatically to the Business Vice' president, I discovered he had, months earlier, promised his brother-in-law the opportunity to sell it to our college at a discount. When I found a donor to put microwaves in all our student dormitories, the Vice-president for Student Affairs was offended because he hadn't been consulted. He actually said students might put cats in the microwaves---in a Christian College.
The politics in the job was more than I was willing to put myself through. Back to the insurance industry I went after only nine months.
A tool like you have is going to be tempered by personal experience. Did my pivot stance cause me to change, or did my experience cause me to have the pivot stances I have?
That's for you much smarter people to figure out---and also to recognize how experience may influence the data you gather in perhaps ways you did not think about.
Good luck.