The Cobley test measures specific features of innate instinctive creative behavior. Cathy Colby recognizes that instinct is at the core of human creativity and has created a methodology for your innate creativity. The test will tell you how best to express yourself.
JK Rowling, with her Harry Potter books, said that if she hadn’t started writing — in the middle of unemployment and with a child in her arms, without a husband — she would have gone crazy, and that the main thing that she understood is that each of us is no more than that he is. We fail in life if we try to be someone other than ourselves. She was a failure until she started doing something she really enjoyed. Instincts are understood by Colby as channels for subconscious energy, which is why certain activities energize us and make us feel deeply unhappy in others.
The athlete will not be able to manage the office. The writer will not be able to trade. An entrepreneur will suffocate in secretarial work, and a secretary will not be able to be an anti-crisis manager. Etc.
4 MODES OF ACTIVE ACTION (initiativity, so to speak) highlighted by Colby for a person:
- FACT SEARCHER – in this mode we act as: pragmatist, researcher, arbiter, practitioner, judge or realist.
- STRONG FINISH — in this mode, we act as: planner, designer, programmer, theorist, classifier, creator of the picture.
- DESTPÊK LEZÛN – in this mode, we speed things up, generalize, improvise, be enterprising, promote, act like an impressionist.
- DEMONSTRATOR — in this mode, we make, cast, build, weave, show manual dexterity, grow.
These modes of action are based respectively on instincts:
- deep research,
- structure definitions,
- intuitive interaction with uncertainty (risk),
- turning ideas into tangible objects.
Each instinct is manifested with a certain intensity and to a greater or lesser extent. He can strongly guide us, and then the corresponding activity energizes us — and this is an important field of activity for us. That is, whether we like it or not, we direct our energy in the direction where we define urgency, or, well, an urgent refusal. Sometimes a person’s initiative is to insist on not doing something. For example, JK Rowling steadfastly refuses to build any castles other than air castles. According to Colby, this is also a talent! And we’ve seen it in action.
A distinct pattern of intensity of our instincts stands out. The remainder of the energy falls on the remaining modes of action, in which we either strive to save energy by avoiding the problems associated with this activity, or more or less willingly adapt our actions to a certain extent in this direction. Thus, the strength of each instinct manifests itself in three ways — the zone of urgency, resistance or adaptation.
Everything together adds up to your unique combination, from which far-reaching conclusions can be drawn regarding success in activities, in communication, in learning.
Stress is removed very simply — if you are insistent on some instinct — do it. If not, don’t do it. Don’t force yourself. More later. You can get the simplest idea of what we are talking about by looking at the Colby test for children — in each question, the answers just illustrate the manifestations of one of the four instincts, and looking at tables 1 and 2. (Table 2 shows the Mode Operandi (Mode of Action) in depending on the zone of urgency — resistance, accommodation, or (below) urgency for a given instinct).
Table 1
The types of learning arising from this concept and some other characteristic features of people, depending on the direction of their giftedness:
Published in R. Kiyosaki’s book «Rich Kid, Smart Kid»
Table 2
Shows Modus Operandi (Mode of Action) depending on the zone of urgency — resistance, accommodation, or (below) urgency for this instinct.
Referans
- Index (test) Colby