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ARE YOU A GENETIC HUNTER? (part two) by Bill Allsop (reprinted with permission.) |
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10. When you were growing up, did you feel that you were somehow different (usually in a sort of negative way)? Was it obvious to you that you didn't react to situations the same way as other members of your peer group (sort of like being a little bit out of tune or out of step)? Maybe you had only a few good friends (or were a loner) as opposed to running with the pack? If you identify with any of the above, you were probably sensing that you were a genetic hunter in a genetic farmer's world and you were in fact, really different in many unique ways from your peer group. We have found that when we get genetic hunter minded youths together, and encourage them to interact as genetic hunters and not as genetic farmers, they sometimes, for the first time, develop deep and meaningful relationships that they had never thought possible. This has been one of Project Labs most exciting discoveries. 11. Do you easily comply with authority and have faith in their knowing what is best for you? Genetic hunters' have a hard time with this one. This ties back into the traditions. Much authority is gained by simply doing things the same way they have "always been done". This drives the creative hunter nuts because-he/she intuitively looks for and sees the inequity and/or failings of much of authoritative rule. For the most part, the writers of the Declaration of Independence of the United States were genetic hunters who designed a new experiment in government based on the concept of rule by the people. I have come to believe that only a strong genetic hunter can truly appreciate the depth of the philosophy involved in that document. 12. Did you enjoy school? I mean the classes and the information, not the social and other extracurricular activities. Most genetic hunters did not enjoy their school years. They were constantly wiggling in their chairs, wanting to ask questions on subjects that were not being discussed and were easily distracted during tests and reading exercises. The genetic hunter youths were forced to curb their marvelous energy, curiosity and creativity and were instead expected to sit still for hours while their teachers poured information into their heads that had little relevance to their real lives. After twelve years of genetic farmer style learning, most of the genetic hunter youths that I have worked with have had their curiosity and creativity permanently damaged. I believe that this represents an unbelievable loss to our society in terms of competing on the world market. . 13. In school, if you were given three weeks to write a term theme, did you start right in and use the allotted time effectively? or did you wait until a short time before the theme was due and invoke a massive, crash program of last minute writing? Because of the forty-eight hour time period that youthful, genetic hunters live in, most of them have an extremely hard time coming to grips with anything that's more than a day or two into their future. This ability to focus massive mental power totally in the present is a terrific asset for most practical applications. That the genetic farmers refer to this inability to work toward future goals as "procrastination", only points up their lack of understanding of what forces are really at work. We have become aware that some ability to work with future based concepts seems to mature for most genetic hunters sometime during their early twenties, but throughout their life one of their strongest assets to their creativity is being able to martial massive thinking abilities into the present while being totally unfettered by future consequences or past results. 14. In school, if you were taking a very important, timed test and someone dropped a book or coughed loudly, did it distract you for an instant? Would you look around to see what had happened? Maybe you remember a bird landing on the window sill of the classroom while the teacher was lecturing and you had a hard time listening while being distracted by the bird. There are thousands of distracting things in the world each day and genetic hunters are aware of most of them. Genetic hunters are blessed with what has been termed "Global Awareness". When a genetic hunter concentrates, it is in this condition. Every sense (smell, sight, hearing, touch, intuition, etc.) is turned on and is constantly updating the brain with information of what is going on around them. This is a definite disadvantage in a conventional genetic farmers classroom, but for a surgeon, mechanic, science researcher, animal trainer or any of hundreds of other avocations, being able to stay tuned in to everything that is going on at the same time, is a terrific asset. 15. Have you ever, down deep in your heart, known that you were smarter than a member of your peer group, but that the other person seemed to consistently make better grades or get more rewards (often they seemed to do this with much less effort than you had to expend)? This is a common lament among many of the genetic hunters that I have met. Schools in the United States are designed to measure those qualities deemed valuable in genetic farmers and seem blind to the equally valuable but different traits of genetic hunters. I often talk about schools measuring genetic hunter youth with the wrong yardstick. Schools constantly measure rote-memory which is an aptitude that genetic hunters are often weak in. On the other hand, schools seldom, if ever, measures conceptual understanding which is one of the genetic hunter's strongest attributes. 16. Have you ever been working on a project and found that you needed something in another room; but after getting to the other room, you realized that you had totally forgotten what you went there for? This is apparently a very common phenomenon among genetic hunters (young and old). I have heard many reports of instances where they finally gave up trying to remember what they had gone for and had to go back to where they were working in order to get the clues that would jog their memory. One author believes that the Hunter's mind has over a thousand uncalled for images bubbling up per minute, and these uncalled for images push the remembrance of what they went for, out of their conscious mind. The positive side of this phenomenon is depicted by the stories that I hear which go something like this: "While in the process of going to get something, the solution to a problem that I had been working on for weeks suddenly came bubbling up". If you had to make a choice, which would you rather have, a mind that stays focused on what you went after or one that uses the distracted moments to present you with solutions? 17. Do you find that after solving all of the problems in a project and being able to visualize its completion, you have pretty much lost interest and are ready for a new project? Most genetic hunters seem to receive great satisfaction from creative problem solving but lack much interest in doing the finishing work on a project. Well what would you expect? The modern day genetic hunter gets their pleasure while hunting for solutions, instead of animals. It is the thrill of the hunt that captivates their mind and excites their sole. Once a hunt is completed, the end product is merely an anticlimax, and signals the time for starting a new and even more interesting hunt. ( E.G. Great artists live for the experience of creating an image from their minds, not for the satisfaction of owning a fine painting). One author stated that genetic hunters live for the "process" that takes place during the hunt and any "product" that results from their hunt is of only secondary importance. On the other hand, the genetic farmer suffers through the "process" part of a project in order to obtain the "product". 18. Do you ever have more than one project underway at the same time? Strong genetic hunters normally have multiple projects underway at the same time. Some of the projects may not be worked on for months or years at a time but, nevertheless, the projects are still active and will eventually be finished. 19. If I invited you to go to the movies; but fifteen minutes before we were due to leave, I changed the plans to a trip to the zoo, would you be able to switch to the new destination without experiencing distress? (We were told that it wasn't a very good movie). When genetic hunters "want to" they are capable of instant changes in direction of either body or thought, without any distress or disorientation. Genetic farmers generally dislike last minute changes and expect people to stick to their original plan. A word of caution though; genetic hunters are often hard headed as a mule and if they don't want to change direction, it may take a massive effort to get them to change their minds. It is the genetic hunter's extreme flexibility that gives him/her permission to try many different kinds of innovative solutions while problem solving, and is one of their greatest strengths.  THANK YOU FOR READING THE QUESTIONS The Project Lab staff had intended to assign a weighted value and a usable scale (which ranges from weak to strong) for each question. We had anticipated this to be a fairly easy interpretation, but it has provoked such a flurry of debate that we are still trying to agree among ourselves. Even without a number to identify how strong your genetic hunter/farmer traits are, you probably have a pretty good idea of how well you agreed or disagreed with the way the questions were worded as well as the subject matter covered. If you have other traits that you believe should be included or if you have questions about, or clarification of, any of the questions, please get in touch. Bill Allsopp / Director Project Labs of Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas 72207 (501) 666-6367 / 6662-2030 [email protected] |
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