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This is the free profile, here about a made-up person.

  • Each line is one trait. Both ends are named, and neither end is better.
  • The dot is where the person sits among other people.
  • The words say it in tenths: “faster than 9 in 10 people” means only 1 in 10 is faster.
  • Yours can be shorter. A short or quiet video gives a shorter profile.
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How I come across and what drives me

Outgoing · Curious · Flexible · Discovery · Lively

  • Speaks faster than 9 in 10 people
  • Pauses more rarely than 9 in 10 people
  • Smiles more while talking than 9 in 10 people
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Your type

Lively · Discovery · Outgoing · Curious · Flexible

You talk with energy, seek new experiences, start things, chase new ideas and keep options open.

  • Upside: Listeners stay with you as you talk.
  • Downside: Routine tasks slip.

How you come across

Lively, leaning Warm

BoldLivelyWarmGentleLow-keyReservedComposedDirect
What Lively means

You bring energy: you talk, laugh, and get other people talking.

What others notice

  • Voice: it rises and falls a lot; a quick pace; frequent laughs.
  • Face: big, frequent smiles that change often.
  • Body: many gestures; you lean in and move while you talk.
  • Turn-taking: fast back-and-forth; you tell stories and ask people in.
  • Gaze: frequent eye contact that moves around the group.

Gifts

  • People join in and say more when you are there.
  • Strangers become a group quickly around you.
  • Long or dull work is easier for others to get through with you.

Costs

  • You fill silences that other people need for thinking.
  • In serious moments, your energy comes across as too much.
  • People remember your stories better than your points.

With other styles

  • Neighbours: Bold shares your lead with less warmth. Warm shares your warmth with less lead.
  • Opposite: Reserved keeps the distance you close.
  • Easiest partner: Gentle: you lead warmly, and they give room warmly. Warm and Low-key are also easy.
  • Two Lively people: bring a lot of energy, and both want the floor.
  • Hardest partner: Direct: both of you lead, and the warmth differs. With Reserved and Composed people, you reach out and they hold back.

Who you are inside

Outgoing · Curious · Flexible

Outgoing or inward

More outgoing than 8 in 10 people

What Outgoing means
  • Your energy comes from people and activity: you start things and say what you think.

Gifts

  • You get things moving.
  • People find you easy to know.
  • You think fast, out loud.

Costs

  • You leave little room for quiet.
  • You take on too much.
  • Long stretches alone drain you.

What drives you

Discovery, then Freedom

Freedom

Discovery

What Discovery means

You want new experiences, variety, and to enjoy life as it comes.

In your talk and choices

  • "I had never done that before", "let's try it"; stories of trips, new food, sudden changes, and things that were fun. Variety over routine, experiences over things, yes to the unplanned.

Gifts

  • You bring new options to every plan.
  • You learn fast by trying.
  • You make ordinary days more interesting for the people around you.

Costs

  • Routine work slips.
  • You start more than you finish.
  • Others find your pace tiring.

Neighbours and opposite

  • Freedom wants choice more than experience; Mastery turns the wish for a challenge into getting good at things. The opposite is Belonging: you reach for the new, and Belonging keeps the familiar.

What is rare about you

  • Speaks faster than 9 in 10 people
  • Pauses more rarely than 9 in 10 people
  • Smiles more while talking than 9 in 10 people
  • Speaks fast and smiles while talking: about 1 in 40 people

Your portrait

You bring energy, and new experiences are what drive you. You make plans fun and people come along, and routine work slips.

Your traits

Face

Smile level

Smiles more while talking than 9 in 10 people

Face liveliness

Shows a livelier face than 9 in 10 people

Smile count

Smiles more often than 8 in 10 people

Expression length

Changes expression more quickly than 8 in 10 people

Face liveliness range

Moves from still to lively more than 8 in 10 people

Brow height

Raises the brows more than 8 in 10 people

Eye contact

Eye contact breaks

Holds the gaze more than 8 in 10 people

Voice

Voice pitch range

Speaks with a wider pitch range than 9 in 10 people

Voice loudness range

Varies loudness more than 8 in 10 people

Sentence-end pitch

Drops the pitch at the end of a sentence more than 8 in 10 people

Sentence-end loudness

Speaks up to the last word more than 8 in 10 people

Face and voice together

Face-voice link

Moves face and voice together more than 8 in 10 people

Range through the talk

Voice loudness shifts

Shifts loudness across the talk more than 8 in 10 people

Voice pitch shifts

Shifts pitch across the talk more than 8 in 10 people

Timing and rhythm

Speaking pace

Speaks faster than 9 in 10 people

Pause count

Pauses more rarely than 9 in 10 people

Filler sounds

Says um and uh more rarely than 9 in 10 people

Talking speed

Speaks faster between pauses than 8 in 10 people

Pause filling

Pauses in silence more than 8 in 10 people

Thinking as you talk

Concrete words

Talks in general words more than 8 in 10 people

Sentence-end pauses

Keeps pauses for the ends of sentences more than 8 in 10 people

How you tell things

Ideas or events

Talks in general terms more than 8 in 10 people

Words

Sentence length

Speaks in shorter sentences than 8 in 10 people

Views and facts

Views or descriptions

Talks in views and opinions more than 8 in 10 people

Body and energy

Head nods

Nods more often than 8 in 10 people

Head movement

Keeps the head moving more of the time than 8 in 10 people

01

First impressions

How do I come across when I talk?

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  • How fast do I talk to someone new?
  • What does my face show to someone new?
  • How smooth is my talk when I meet someone new?
  • How much does my face move with someone new?
  • Do I give views or descriptions to someone new?
  • Do my face and voice move together with someone new?
  • Where do my eyes go when I meet someone new?
  • How do my sentences end when I meet someone new?

8 findings ready

02

Love and closeness

What am I like to be close to?

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  • How does my voice sound to people close to me?
  • How much does my head nod in close talk?
  • How fast do my words come in close talk?
  • Do my face and voice go together in close talk?
  • How much do I look at people close to me?
  • What do people close to me see on my face?
  • How long does my expression last in close talk?
  • Does my face change much over a long close talk?
  • Does my voice get louder or softer in close talks?

9 findings ready

03

Friends and social life

What am I like as a friend?

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  • How quickly do my stories come out with friends?
  • How lively is my face with friends?
  • Do I nod as I talk with friends?
  • How does my voice change as I talk with friends?
  • How does my face look in a group of friends?
  • How long does each expression last with my friends?
  • How does my voice end a sentence with friends?
  • What kind of words do I use with friends?
  • What do my eyebrows do as I talk with friends?
  • Does my voice go higher and lower during long chats?

10 findings ready

04

Work and career

What am I like to work with?

Locked

  • Do people in meetings get a turn when I talk?
  • Do I say um and uh when I explain work?
  • How fast do I say my words at work?
  • In meetings, do I state my view or the facts?
  • How loud and soft is my voice in meetings?
  • In meetings, where does my voice go at sentence ends?
  • Is my head still or moving in meetings?
  • What kind of words do I use to explain work?
  • Are my sentences long or short when I explain work?
  • Does my voice change level over a long meeting?

10 findings ready

05

How you think and decide

How do I think as I talk?

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  • How do I find my words as I speak?
  • What do I do when I stop to think?
  • Where do I look as I work out my words?
  • Do I think out loud in ideas or in events?
  • How long are my sentences as I work things out?
  • Where do I stop when I think out loud?

6 findings ready

06

Leading others

What is it like to follow me?

Locked

  • Does my team see a smile as I speak?
  • Does my voice move up and down when I lead?
  • What does my team hear when I pause to think?
  • How loud or soft am I with my team?
  • Where does my voice go as I end an instruction?
  • Do I give my team ideas or examples?
  • Does my face change as I lead a group?
  • How much does my head move when I lead?
  • How do my eyebrows look to my team?
  • How do my sentences come out when I lead?

10 findings ready

3 more traits are not sure yet at this length of video. With about 5 more minutes of video, one more trait would be sure.

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