The Two Roads
A Self-Assessment of How You Meet an Open Question · 50 statements
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Before You Begin
Every person meets an open question with one of two underlying pulls. One pull is toward settling: reaching an answer that feels right and can be held onto. The other is toward finding out: staying with the question long enough to test it, and accepting whatever comes back.
Both pulls are ordinary and both are human. This assessment identifies which one is currently running the show, and it ends on one of two roads. There is no score, no percentage, and no ranking.
Answer quickly and candidly about how things actually go, not about how they ought to go. Your first reaction is usually the accurate one. There are no right answers, and no trick questions. Some statements will seem to have nothing to do with anything. Answer them anyway.
Use a 1 to 5 scale for each statement:
- 1 Strongly Disagree
- 2 Mostly Disagree
- 3 Mixed or Depends
- 4 Mostly Agree
- 5 Strongly Agree
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What this assessment just did
None of these statements mentioned money, relationships, or deception, and that was deliberate. Naming those subjects would have told you which answers looked good and produced a portrait of who you want to be rather than where you currently stand. The statements instead measured ten separate things the research literature has studied for decades: how long you can hold a question open, whether new information can move a settled position, how you treat a claim you would prefer to be true, whether you check where information came from, and how much weight a first impression carries.
Half the statements were written so that agreeing indicated seeking, and half so that agreeing indicated settling. Answering everything the same way, in either direction, produces an exactly balanced result and does not reach the Yellow Brick Road. There was no safe answer to guess.
Four practices that move a person toward the Yellow Brick Road
- Ask what evidence would show a claim to be false, before deciding whether you accept it.
- Trace where a claim originally came from, using a source the other party did not hand you.
- Apply the same standard to information you welcome and information you do not.
- Let a question stay open past the point where it becomes uncomfortable.
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