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Topic: are you a talent, a lifer, or a mandarin?
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CancerianMoon
Knowflake Posts: 1082
From: Sydney, Australia. Cancer Sun.....Gemini Moon.....Aqua Rising
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted June 20, 2006 09:14 PM
 
You are a Talent!
You're a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You're determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You're not afraid of a fight, and you're not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you're not willing to settle for an ordinary life.
Your scores:
Talent: 72%
Lifer: 31%
Mandarin: 36%
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CancerianMoon
Knowflake Posts: 1082
From: Sydney, Australia. Cancer Sun.....Gemini Moon.....Aqua Rising
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted June 20, 2006 09:20 PM
Talents tend to value individuality and boldness. Lifers tend to value loyalty and caution. Mandarins tend to value intelligence and education.This theory cuts across traditional boundaries of career fields. The rock star is a Talent, but so is the engineer who forms a startup company to market his invention. Soldiers can be Lifers but so can social workers. Mandarins may teach postmodernism in English departments or serve as highly-paid business consultants with MBAs. It also cuts across political lines. The Talent path tends to attract people with extreme views. Michael Moore is a Talent, but so is Ann Coulter. Rush Limbaugh and Al Franken are both pure Talents in the sense that they have no formal training in politics, but are blessed with the ability to take an attitude and a microphone and turn those into a lucrative career. Lifers tend to be conservative in the literal (not right-wing) sense. They tend to be averse to radical change in any direction. A couple generations ago, Lifers were more optimistic -- the Organization Men (typically) who believed, "Be loyal to your company, and your company will be loyal to you." In today's era of downsizing and offshoring, the Lifer mood seems much more cynical. Today, academic Mandarins tend to be predominantly liberal, though conservative and libertarian Mandarins make a good living at places like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and a wide range of management consulting firms. The difference between Mandarin and Talent political figures is that Mandarins tend to focus on ideas and policies while Talents are as much media personalities as political thinkers. Noam Chomsky and Charles Murray (co-author of The Bell Curve) are both famous and controversial Mandarins -- but if you passed them on the street you probably wouldn't know who they were. If Michael Moore and Ann Coulter walked by, you would notice. Camille Paglia is a good example of someone who, despite being an academic, is temperamentally pure Talent rather than Mandarin. Like any theory, this oversimplies some things, and I wouldn't claim that these are the only three paths to success in America or anywhere else. However, there are aspects of his theory that ring very true in my experiences in academia, government, and the private sector.
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AcousticGod
Knowflake Posts: 11943
From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted June 20, 2006 10:12 PM
You are a Talent!
You're a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You're determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You're not afraid of a fight, and you're not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you're not willing to settle for an ordinary life.
Your scores:
Talent: 67%
Lifer: 33%
Mandarin: 41%
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fayte.m
Knowflake Posts: 9809
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted June 21, 2006 10:42 AM
You're a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You're determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You're not afraid of a fight, and you're not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you're not willing to settle for an ordinary life.
Your scores:
Talent: 62%
Lifer: 18%
Mandarin: 51%
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cancerrg
Knowflake Posts: 2668
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Registered: Dec 2004
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posted June 21, 2006 11:08 AM
You are a Talent!
You're a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You're determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You're not afraid of a fight, and you're not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you're not willing to settle for an ordinary life.
Your scores:
Talent: 67%
Lifer: 31%
Mandarin: 44%
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Lynx
Knowflake Posts: 486
From: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted June 21, 2006 04:01 PM
Your scores:Talent: 77%
Lifer: 28%
Mandarin: 41% IP: Logged |
WaterNymph
Knowflake Posts: 2276
From: London, UK
Registered: May 2005
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posted June 21, 2006 05:20 PM
You are a Talent!Your scores:
Talent: 67%
Lifer: 23%
Mandarin: 46%
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ScotScorp
Knowflake Posts: 936
From: St. Louis, Missouri
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted June 21, 2006 07:13 PM
You are a Talent!Talent: 69%
Lifer: 36%
Mandarin: 36% IP: Logged |
pidaua
Knowflake Posts: 7314
From: Schweinfurt to Grafenwoehr all within 6 months LOL
Registered: May 2002
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posted June 22, 2006 05:57 PM
You're an intellectual, and you've worked hard to get where you are now. You're a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world's problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates you when people who are ignorant or dishonest rise to positions of power. You believe that people can make a difference in the world, and you're determined to try.
Your scores:
Talent: 41%
Lifer: 36%
Mandarin: 62%
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Joanna
Knowflake Posts: 44
From: Shenzhen/HK,China
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted June 27, 2006 07:03 AM
You are a Talent!
Your scores:
Talent: 62%
Lifer: 31%
Mandarin: 59%
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Joanna
Knowflake Posts: 44
From: Shenzhen/HK,China
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted June 27, 2006 07:03 AM
You are a Talent!
Your scores:
Talent: 62%
Lifer: 31%
Mandarin: 59%
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