Houseplant Quiz
Pothos
Stretching your vines and thriving even in the shade, you fit right into wherever you're placed.
Pothos is a vining plant that people enjoy letting trail from shelves or wind around a pole. It tolerates shade well and rarely wilts if you forget to water it for a bit, so it's well known as an easy houseplant. A cut vine left in water will often grow roots.
Like a pothos stretching its vines even at the back of a room where little light reaches, you can move things forward without waiting for others, even in quiet places. You give shape to what you start right away and keep growing it, without anyone pushing you.
A pothos vine trails down or climbs up depending on where it's placed. You, too, can simply grow wherever you're put. That also means you rarely pick a place or role for yourself and say “This is where I want to be.” Every now and then, try moving to a place you chose yourself, and you may grow in a new direction.
Strengths
- You can get moving right away without waiting for others
- You can keep working at your own pace, even somewhere quiet
- You can change how you do things to fit wherever you're placed
Where you may stumble
- You rarely choose a place or role yourself and tend to slot into whatever's free
- You forget to tell people what you've done on your own
- When asked about your progress in front of a lot of people, you can't quite explain all you've done alone
Sounds familiar, Pothos?
- By the time people find out about something you quietly started, you're well into it
- In the early morning, with no one else around, you've already finished three tasks
- You quietly take on a role nobody's filled before anyone even asks
Where you shine
Times and places with few people around, when you're powering through a big chunk of work. This is your chance to show off your independence and quick growth.
Tips for “Pothos”
- Every now and then, go and claim a place or role you've chosen yourself
- On days you see people, tell them about one thing you've recently started
- On days you'll speak in front of a group, sum up what you've done in three lines
Matches
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Monstera — Monstera also shoots up fast in the shade and values regular contact. Pothos rarely starts conversations itself, but Monstera talks to it, so before long Pothos finds it has someone to move forward with.
Snake Plant — Snake Plant is fine on its own and happy in the shade. Neither makes the other do any looking after, so even spending time apart in the same room never feels awkward. Watching the slow-growing Snake Plant reminds Pothos that some days it's fine not to hurry.
Olive — Olive grows slowly, values regular care and loves the sun. To Pothos, who wants to keep growing, Olive's “Let me just check something” sounds like a signal to stop again and again; to Olive, Pothos silently pushing ahead looks like skipping the checks.
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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