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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
i am the cynic :)
I think I was skeptic once.
very nice. there should be a point that’s high on hope and low on doubt labeled “sap”
Lower Left: Fatalism
A point high on hope and low on doubt could be labeled “faith”.
Instead of “sap” or “faith”, how about optimism?
haha i was actually going to suggest “faith,” guess being somewhere in the right side of this graph pushed me towards “sap” instead.
Officially the best card ever, in my book.
I agree, something like “eternal optimist” should be in the top left corner but otherwise an excellent card.
I think “optimist” covers anyone across the top. Faith (or “believer”) at the left; skeptic at the right. Fatalism bottom left.
Not that the card is inadequate as-is. Definitely my favorite in a long long time. (Hey, it moved me to comment for the first time.)
Thanks, Jessica!
Yes! Brilliant!
Says a skeptic.
The fact that I would label the upper left with “ignorant” places me solidly in the skeptic category myself. =}
Ah yes, there is no hope for the cynic.
I invented a saying for comparing naïveté with cynicism: “Cynicism is the second naïveté”, meaning that cynicism is often a product of too much naïveté, and that both in fact are simplistic and unrealistic. In many cases, people believe a thing is easy to do, fail, and then believe it’s impossible to do, when often it is rather possible to do, but requires much effort both in training and thinking.
I think upper left goes to optimism, faith and sap being particular cases.
I’m skeptical of jadeholiday’s faith.
But there is always hope.
I think I have the slope greater than being skeptic!! Faithful person
haha, Jacob – but if you’re skeptical of faith, it’s not a matter of more hope – but less doubt – according to this graph! :)
Very nice. For me, the 4-point graph would read
* believer * skeptic
* fatalist * cynic
Actually, I’m not sure if cynics are filled with doubt. They just KNOW for sure that it will not work out. :)
4-point graph, Jim?
Surely you’re not suggesting the chart should be a Boston Matrix?
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