The other day my friend showed me a really cool online test by Cerries Mooney, which was going to tell me what type of primary archetype I am, for design purposes.
Apparently a Primary Archetype helps to bring business clarity, confidence and effortless communication.
Now of course, me being curious, I took the test and found out that I was an Explorer.
Meaning, my main goal is to find a better world, both inside and out.
So to discover things in the external world that meaningfully align with my internal world.
I then spent one hour (seriously) wasting (enjoying like heck!) time on Pinterest looking at mood boards and saying “Yes the Explorer is soooo me!”
Then this morning for some reason I started to think about a networking event tonight.
Last night I went to Kundalini yoga (after not going for forever) and so this morning I was giving myself excuses on why I shouldn’t go tonight: I need to grocery shop, it’s farther than I usually go for these things, it’s too freaking cold out, I would prefer to go to another yoga class, and on and on the excuses came to me.
It was then that I thought, why am I talking myself out of this?
I used to go out to events all the time when I lived in New York.
And then I thought about The Label.
Does that mean I’m not an extrovert anymore?
Am I an introvert?
I mean it seems so cool to be an introvert theses days and I read somewhere that if you get energy from yourself, but not from the crowd (even though you’re great in groups) that technically you are an introvert.
WTF am I then?!
Am I both?
Also, doesn’t it depend on who you hang out with – if the people are fun, you’ll mostly get positive energy and excited, if people are boring and negative, won’t that bring you down?
And another thing, don’t we as people go through seasons of change?
Some times we feel social and other times not.
So why do we care so much about these labels and proudly talk about them to others in entrepreneurial circles and on our About Pages on our websites?
And with all these labels, how do we really focus because one label is telling us one thing and another is saying something else?
As of now, I took a test that says I’m an EFNT, a creative type (The Fascinate test by Sally Hogshead), an Explorer, a Scorpio sun sign, a Canadian, etc.
It’s interesting to read about this stuff (and fun too), but when it comes down to it, it’s so much easier to just be me. 🙂