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Here are your personalized results.

Your leading Primal power is Commonsense, a power shared by Steve Jobs, Cleopatra, and founding father Benjamin Franklin.

Your limiting or least developed Primal power is Emotion. We’ll talk more about that below.

Your scores are relative to you. Scoring high on commonsense means your ability to use commonsense is currently stronger than your ability to use intuition, imagination, and emotion, not that you have more (or less) commonsense than anyone else.

Let’s look at these two Primal powers and how they inform your intelligence.

  • “Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”

    Benjamin Franklin

Commonsense

Your leading Primal power is commonsense.

Commonsense is your power of analyzing the situation.

Logic misunderstands commonsense as statistical, but it’s your ability to select the plan that best meets the situation.

When your leading power is commonsense, it means you’re good at making the right decision at the right time.

Emotion

Your limiting Primal power is emotion.

Emotion is your power of personal direction.

Logic misunderstands emotion as a tool for knowing others, but it’s really your ability to know yourself.

When your limiting power is emotion, you often doubt yourself — even when you’re doing the right thing.

Many successful individuals have a clear leading power and a clear limiting power, with the other two Primal powers somewhere in the middle.

Generally, you grow fastest when you develop your limiting Primal Power. In your case, emotion.

When paired, commonsense + emotion power your communication.

To strengthen your emotion and boost your communication skills, read chapters 3 & 8 of Primal Intelligence.

How to use your results

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