A Question of Personality

Maybe it should be a Personality Question instead.  Either way, I have come up with another system for identifying personalities.  To be more specific this system is focused mainly on thought patterns of individuals.  I've covered personalities before in a number of posts but I think this system is a lot simpler and a bit more relatable than the ones I have covered in the past.

There are 5 questions, [Who, What, Where, When, and Why] that I think in many ways you can apply distinct mindsets to - each question paints a picture of the kind of person who would ask each of these questions.  Of course you will ask many questions and you will be capable of asking all 5; I am choosing here to focus on your predominant question, the one you tend to ask most.

Who?

If you tend to ask this question a lot or questions that are an extension of it then I would say you were a very social person - or at least you have a very high social interest.  You're concerned about people and their lives; who knows who, who does what, and maybe who does who if you are that way inclined.  This mindset would be the most likely to follow the cult of celebrity and obsess over an idol and want to know everything about them.  They are also fixated on crediting people for their work however, wanting to know who wrote a song for example and whether or not a singer has any real talent, or who is really responsible.

What?

The most common question as an extension of 'What' is the 'What If' question which tends to sum up this mindset the most.  Concerned with hypothetical situations and their outcomes this mindset tends to run through scenarios and what might happen as a result.  This mindset is less focused on asking who was involved or why they acted in the way they did, instead wanting to know exactly what they did and reserving judgement until they have a better understanding.  Perhaps the biggest problem with this mindset is that they don't factor past records into their decisions much and instead focus on the individual action, this can lead to ignorance of track records and end up with history often repeating itself.

Where?

More interested in travelling and being on the move, less interested in being in one place for too long; I would consider this mindset to be impatient by nature.  Finding it hard to focus on anything that does not pique their interest this mindset is most often found to be miles away in the moment.  You want everything now and you want to know where you can get it, you'll figure out the rest later.  These people I would say are those that feel the need to move closer to something in order to achieve it - like an actor who moves to Hollywood because the closer they are physically to what they want the more attainable it feels to them.

When?

Primary concern for those that ask this question is time.  Everything in their life revolves around time and for them everything needs a schedule.  These people are most likely among us to have a 10 year plan of things that they want to achieve or have goals they want to achieve by a certain age.  "I want to be married by the time I am 30" for example.  The downfall of this mindset is ultimately the sacrifices and the comrpomises they will make to achieve their goals on time.  The less time they have the more desperate they will become and the more they will give up to get what they wanted.  This mindset is less about patience and more about discipline and regime.

Why?

These people tend not to think about things until they happen.  Quite rare they have the ability to think of nothing.  They don't do well with hypothetical situations, when one is posed they are more likely to question why they would ever be in that situation rather than answer the scenario posed.  These people don't like crossing bridges they haven't reached and are perhaps the most grounded of all 5.  They are also those most likely to struggle with creative thinking.  Their thought process is more practical based rather than imaginative.  They struggle with open ended projects and need constraints to be added in order to get the job done.

Which one are you?  If you haven't already guessed I would fall under "What?"