Flower Quiz
Sunflower
Every year you shoot up from seed and open one big, bold flower under the summer sky.
The sunflower is a summer plant. It sprouts from seed sown in spring, grows taller than a person in a single summer, and opens a big yellow flower. It's an annual: once it finishes flowering, it leaves its seeds and dies, and the next year it starts over again from seed.
Young sunflowers are known to turn during the day as if following the sun while they're still in bud. By the time the flowers open, most stop and stay facing east. You're the kind of person who settles on one goal and heads straight for it.
With a bright yellow you can spot from far away, fields of sunflowers are a famous summer sight. You show your thinking clearly, but while you're heading for one goal, it can be hard for other things to get through to you. Now and then, stop and turn your face toward what the people around you are saying.
Strengths
- You can settle on one goal and head straight for it
- You can set out your ideas clearly, in a form anyone can understand
- You can start from scratch without being held back by last year
Where you may stumble
- Once you've set a goal, other things have a hard time getting through to you
- Because you show things so clearly, you can come across as pushy
- You rethink from scratch every time, even ways of doing things that worked before
Sounds familiar, Sunflower?
- When meeting up, you tell people in advance how to spot you: “I'll be in yellow”
- When you take photos, they're almost always straight on
- Even for a dish you've made many times, you look up the recipe from scratch every time
Where you shine
Being the banner everyone rallies around when heading for one goal, launching something new from scratch, and any time people need a landmark they can see from far away.
Tips for “Sunflower”
- After stating your view clearly, ask the other person for one of theirs
- Write down what worked, and pass it on to next year's you
- On the way to your goal, take a moment to hear what people around you are saying
Matches
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Lotus — The Lotus also opens one big flower in summer and sends up new leaves every year. The Sunflower shows itself to people far off, the Lotus reaches those nearby. Because you get things across differently, you can spend the same summer side by side without competing.
Camellia — The Camellia is a flowering tree that opens one big, bold flower in winter. The way the Camellia has thickened its branches year after year shows the Sunflower, who starts from scratch every year, the strength that comes from keeping at something.
Lavender — Lavender strings small flowers along slender spikes and gives off its scent only to those who come close. To the Sunflower, who picks one thing and shows it straight on, Lavender's way of moving things along looks slow, and to Lavender, the Sunflower's drive can seem sudden.
Close neighbors
These differ from this one on just 1 of the 3 axes. If one of your axes was near the middle, you may have their side too.
Which one are you? 18 everyday situations, about 3 minutes.
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