The Yes-but® Test measures your ability to create. Are you capable of giving direction and purpose to your own life?

This test contains 33 questions and takes approximately 3 minutes. If you would like to have the results sent to you, enter your email address here.

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I find it hard to change my opinion.
Other people think of me as an inspiring person.
Making mistakes is tough for me.
With everything I do, I ask myself: "Am I having a good time?"
I can easily postpone making tough decisions.
I find it difficult to say goodbye to people, moments or objects.
With everything I do, I keep at it until I succeed.
If I don’t want to do it, I don’t do it.
Life is a game to me.
I like danger.
It’s easy for me to say no to people.
I quickly seek out help from other people when I run into a problem.
Everything I do, I do with passion.
I often feel hurried and stressed.
I find it easy to change my strategy to get the results I want.
It’s important to me that people think I’m a nice person.
If people ask me for a favour, I am inclined to help them even if I don’t really feel like it.
People know me as someone who can close chapters in their life without looking back.
I find it hard to punish, correct or criticise other people.
Everything I have, I earned for myself.
When people put me under pressure, I am inclined to make decisions that I am not
completely ready to make.
I tend to avoid conflict.
I hate details.
The most important decisions in my life I made intuitively.
I take a moment of peace and quiet for myself every day.
I find it hard to make decisions.
I am good at analysing complex situations.
I have good luck more often than bad luck.
I stand up for myself.
If I make financial arrangements with people, I believe their word is enough.
Making arrangements is done based on trust.
Other people often irritate me.
We’re here to help each other.
My finances are in order.

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Interpretation

Total score: 0 to 55 points

Category 1: 0 to 55 points

Your ability to give your life direction is very poorly developed. Your life is strongly shaped by outside influences. Chances are life to you is a series of events that you seemingly don’t have an influence on. Like the weather, seasons or an earthquake. Sometimes you’re lucky, sometime you aren’t. Hopefully you have the help of a partner, co-worker or someone else to give your life order; otherwise things do not look good. In a large group you feel at ease in a serving role with a well-defined function. If changes present themselves to your life they put you off balance without exception. The worst thing that could happen to your life is losing a job or marriage. Note the points per category where you might have the most to gain. If they are all equal, it’s recommended to work on becoming more assertive first. It’s no use trying to help others if you can’t help yourself.

Interpretation

Total score: 56 to 66 points

Category 2: 56 to 66 points

Sometimes you have ideas about how your life could be, but when it comes down to actually realising those ideas you lack a number of fundamental skills. When failing you are quick to blame the outside world. You are easily put off balance and you have trouble finishing what you started. In order to create you need diverse qualities such as passion, energy and patience. Those qualities seem contradictory; you need to be tough, open and understanding at the same time. If you want some grip on your own life you need to possess those qualities in equal measure. Take a look at your points per category and figure out which you need most and work on those. If you are lacking in all three equally it’s advised to work on being assertive first. “It’s no use trying to help others if you can’t help yourself” is a valid saying for you as well.

Interpretation

Total score: 67 to 77 points

Category 3: 67 to 77 points

You possess adequate qualities to stand on your own two feet and to decide for yourself how to shape your own life. Still your fundamentals are somewhat shaky and chances are you miss some essential skills to be a strong person in the ‘real world’. When people ask you to lead or take responsibility it confuses you. You want to, but you are not sure you really can. That doubt is understandable. Experience has taught you that when the pressure rises you tend to crumble under the weight and lose your grip on the situation. In these cases you feel a need to retreat to your own safe little world. To be able to keep your own space in a larger company you will have to work on a few basic skills. Take a look at your results in each category to see where a margin for improvement lies. Is yes-and your low score? Set your own ambitions and goals. Is no-because underdeveloped? Take chances and be more assertive. Is yes-but a low score for you? Learn to take things slow and take the right choices. Not too fast and not too slow. You decide when you are ready to take decisions. Trust your instincts. If you have all your scores in the same ranges, try to work on saying no more often. It’s no use trying to help others if you can’t stand up for yourself.

Interpretation

Total score: 78 to 88 points

Category 4: 78 to 88 points

You have a healthy amount of basic skills that allow you to influence the world around you. You are capable of making a clear distinction between things you can and cannot influence. You can lead and handle responsibility. Still resistance and setbacks can quickly put you off balance and chances are that unexpected results put you in a state of anger or panic. Especially if there’s a large discrepancy between your scores in different categories (more about this under “balance”). Even though you have the feeling of losing your grip on the world from time to time, you’ll quickly calm down, take a deep breath, take a look around and regain composure. Whether that’s enough to make you feel happy about the way things are depends on the balance between the three categories. Especially in your case it’s advised to carefully study your results and see what you need to work on. If one of the categories scored 7 or more points than any other, that would be a good place to start.

Interpretation

Total score: 89 to 99 points

Category 5: 89 to 99 points

You have strongly developed the skills that allow you to direct and shape your own life. You have a clear insight in your own capabilities and limits. You understand that life sometimes throws things at you that you cannot change. You are capable of knowing when to focus on things you can change. You also have the ingenuity to sometimes flip tricky situations in order to change your life in a positive way. When in company of others you will quickly take a leading role and give people a strong feeling that things will work out right. Whether this makes you happy or not depends on your own ambitions. There are areas where you can greatly improve yourself. But whether or not you want to rise above the crowd is a question you will have to answer for yourself. The better you are at shaping your life, the better you will be at shaping yourself as a person. That isn’t always as straightforward as it sounds. Wilful people like you can be threatening to others. They are harder to manipulate or blackmail. They go their own way and don’t seem to care about what people think. Chances are you will lose people who don’t feel comfortable with that. You might have to choose between losing other people and losing yourself in the process of trying to keep them. It’s up to you. In your case most of all it’s interesting to look at which categories you scored lowest in. If there is a big discrepancy, you have the potential to quickly and easily rise to the 6th category.

Interpretation

Total score: 100 to 110 points

Category 6: 100 to 110 points

You belong to a special group of people. Only a small amount of people score over 100 points on this test (about 12%). You more than adequately possess the skills that are needed to give purpose and direction to your life. What you do coincides with who you are. You can take on different roles without too much trouble, whether it be quiet and retreated or dominant and assertive. In both situations you feel you are ‘just being yourself’. People see you as a creative and wilful person. You feel at ease in the company of others but do not need them to form your own identity. You have created the kind of life for yourself where your need to create can be fully realised. Chances are you are an entrepreneur, artist, director, scientist, or athlete. Because you don’t think in terms of labels, chances are you have been involved in multiple professions, or indeed still are. People get tired just by looking at you. You do not quickly tire out yourself, however. After all you are capable of slowing down and recharging. Whether you feel satisfied with this classification is up to you. By looking at the amount of points you scored in each category you might see that one of them leaves room for improvement. As you know: the difference between ‘good’ and ‘great’ can be enormous.

Interpretation

Total score: 111 to 132 points

Category elite: > 110 points

Thus far less than 1% of participants of this test scored over 110 points. That says something. You have all the qualities of class 6 (see above) so strongly that everyone you meet will immediately sense your strong personality. You will naturally attract people and create enthusiasm wherever you may go. You can’t not do it. It’s such a large part of who you are that you can’t imagine that other people aren’t the same. Large undertakings, complex projects and new challenges are the things that drive you. You always let passion and enthusiasm lead you. In some ways this makes you kind of lonely, but you have long since accepted that. You know that loneliness is just a label. You don’t feel a need to fill your life with meaningless people just to change that.

For the full interpretation of the total score and the 3 different qualities, click here.