Answer the following questions with your first gut response:

1. Do you find lots of different things "interesting" or "worthwhile?

2. When you really understand how something works, where it fits, how to do it, do you lose interest in it?

3. Do you hate the expectation that there's only one answer to "What do you want to be when you grow up??

4. Do you find it more fun to think up neat ideas than to focus in on the details that make it actually happen?

5. Do you refer to yourself as a dabbler? a "dilettante?

6. Do you find it almost impossible to answer the question, "What do you picture yourself doing in five years? in the singular? Find it almost impossible to do a meaningful long-range business plan?

7. Do you have a hard time choosing?

8. When you've figured out how something works, would you rather share that knowledge with others than become a specialist in one aspect of it?

9. Did you have trouble picking a college? a major?

10. Did you have no trouble picking a major but you didn't find yourself motivated to stick with that field much after college?

11. Do you have a job that you can do but feel there's something more you haven't been able to identify?

12. Is the idea of doing the same thing all your working life appalling to you? After even just a year or two, do you feel the itch to move on to something else?

13. Do family members often say "Oh, X just hasn't settled down yet. S/he's always trying something different. I wish s/he'd just figure out something s/he's interested in and do it!

14. Do you have lots of unfinished projects and yet happily move on to starting something new? but that didn't hold your interest, and then you "definitely knew I wanted to be a Y!, but you got tired of that too, and then...

While each person is different, if you said yes for eight or more of these questions or had strong, strong checks by at least five of them, you would enjoy this workshop!

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