A. Working in the staffing-services business for more than twenty-four years. I learned how thousands of people react during periods of crisis. After many years of observing others, I found that often l could predict people's actions and the eventual outcome of particular situations. This inspired me to look for patterns of human behavior that would tend to repeat themselves. My goal was to gain a more objective view of needs of others and myself.
Since I believe that people are successful when they do what they enjoy, I began searching for a simple key to better understand the desires, concerns, different perspectives, and passions of those individuals who would determine my future. My experiences with traditional personality evaluations, such as the well-known Myers-Briggs testing tool, led me to conclude that they only scratched the surface of understanding an individual. I knew that if I could invent an evaluation that revealed the motivating factors of each person, productivity, sales and employee morale would surely soar.
With the help of leading academic scholars, I evaluated my concept using a rigorous test of over five thousand color profiles that took eleven years to develop. Through extensive testing, we have scientifically verified the link between color and emotion that many of us already knew existed.
A The Dewey Color System is based on a ranking of your favorite and least favorite colors four different color categories: primary, secondary, achromatic, and intermediate. Simply put, your subconscious mind is attracted to the colors that indicate your passionate pursuits and not attracted to colors that high-light issues you tend to avoid.
A The system is still functional. It will just take you longer to make your choices. So, take your time. Generally, you will dislike the colors you cannot see. You will have an emotional need to learn and express what these color areas represent.
A If you are someone who loves color, selecting a preferred color can be difficult. Artist, designers, and those who work with color every day can even have trouble picking their least favorite colors. If you are someone that has everyday contact with color, you might have to. go back end pick again. The second time, eliminate your thoughts about how you use color - make it all about you.
A You bet! When your life changes, so can your colors. Leaving home, getting married, having children, losing someone close to you - all of these events can charge your color preferences. For the most part, however, your colors change in varying degrees and not as dramatically as you might think.
In the Dewey Color System, to ensure accuracy, we used the spectrum's most brilliant colors. Studies have proven the more vibrant the color, the more distinct the response.
A If you are someone who loves color, selecting a preferred color can be difficult. Artist, designers, and those who work with color every day can even have trouble picking their least favorite colors. If you are someone that has everyday contact with color, you might have to. go back end pick again. The second time, eliminate your thoughts about how you use color - make it all about you.
A. It's unlikely that you'll choose a color that's not meant for you. How can you not choose what you already instinctively know? However, if the personality descriptions based on the colors you initiate choose seem to be off the mark, read about the other colors and see which apply the most to you. Then choose your colors again. Could it be that you are avoiding your basic self?
If you have a strong reaction to the color description, good or bad, you've probably picked the right color. You'll tend to feel indifference when reading about your incorrect colors. If you're someone who works with colors a lot, such as a painter or graphic designer, it can be especially difficult to make your selection.
If you feel that your colors do not reflect who you are now, they might be showing your core personality responses, not your actions. Training and experience have taught you lessons that allow you to change the way you act. Get upset, though, and you'll need to struggle to keep the acre part of you from taking over.
A. I've spent twenty-eight years developing and refining this system. My greatest wish is that this proven method of using color will be used in addition to language-based tests, to map a more in-depth perspective of your inner self.
The Dewey Color System works for all languages without bias, of interference of language. It is therefore, my ultimate dream that every language and every nation, one day, will unite as one, using this innovative way to better understand our common humanity.
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