Book Genre Quiz
Cookbook
You try out each step one at a time, and quickly turn it into something solid.
A cookbook is a book that gives the ingredients, quantities and steps for making dishes. Many cookbooks are filled with photos of the finished dish and precise numbers — so many grams, so many minutes — so that anyone who follows along with their hands can end up with the same taste.
A cookbook isn't just read; it's a book that gets opened up and used in the kitchen. You try making one dish, and if it works, you remember the steps; if it doesn't, you check where things changed. You're the kind of person who quickly gives the one thing in front of you a real try and turns it into something.
Because you're quick to try and check, you can feel at a loose end when the conversation has no set steps or no quick answer. You may want to jump to the conclusion: “So what should we do?” Remember that sometimes talking is the whole point, and you'll find those moments easier.
Strengths
- You can try out what you've heard right away, with your own hands
- You can master one way of doing things by repeating it again and again
- You can explain steps and amounts in a way that's easy to follow
Where you may stumble
- When a discussion goes on without reaching an answer, you get restless
- When the steps for something aren't decided, you want to settle them before you begin
- You recommend the way that worked for you to others exactly as it is
Sounds familiar, Cookbook?
- When you eat something delicious, you try to guess what went into it
- Whatever someone teaches you, you try it out once that same day
- When someone says “Just eyeball it,” you ask back, “Roughly how much?”
Where you shine
Making something with your hands, or teaching someone how to do something. Steps you've tested and confirmed tend to help others just as they are.
Tips for “Cookbook”
- For conversations with no answer, decide “Today we're just talking” and go along with it
- Before starting, look over the whole set of steps once
- When you recommend your way of doing things, ask about the other person's way too
Matches
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Travel Writing — Travel Writing is another genre that briskly records facts it has checked firsthand. When Travel Writing brings back stories of local flavors from all over, Cookbook tries them out in the kitchen that same day. Stories turn straight into something real.
Mystery — Mystery, too, moves briskly toward a single puzzle. When Cookbook checks what went into a dish, Mystery shows how to reason it out from the clues. You head toward answers at a similar speed, and the conversation flows.
Poetry — Poetry is a genre that pictures whole scenes from the sound of words. Cookbook wants to check things with numbers and steps, Poetry wants to savor the space between words, and even when you talk about the same dish, you tend to care about different things.
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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