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
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
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?
Locked
- 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
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.