Curiosity

How much you follow your interest across topics versus staying on what is useful.

Measured by the Thinking Style test. Scores run from 0 to 100.

Low scores (under 40): Practical focus

Tangents rarely pull you off course, since you put your attention on what you need. That makes you efficient and focused, though you may miss connections that a wider look would show.

Balanced scores (40 to 60)

You explore when something grabs you and stay on task when you need to, without much strain either way.

High scores (over 60): Wide-ranging

How does that work, and why? Questions like these pull you across many fields, bringing rich ideas and connections. Projects can get crowded out by new interests.

Related traits

• Analytical
  Whether you lean on gut feeling or on step-by-step reasoning and evidence.
• Abstraction
  Whether you think in examples and facts or in patterns and general ideas.
• Reflection
  Whether you think out loud in the moment or mull things over first.

Sources and method

This lens places you on four spectrums of thinking, and each end has its own strengths. It measures how you say you usually think, not how well you think, and it says nothing about intelligence. Results are self-report and rough, and your style can change with the topic, your mood and the stakes. Read it as a description of your defaults, not a label.

Neither end of a dimension is better. Each comes with strengths and costs. For self-reflection and entertainment only.