Dinosaur Quiz
Brachiosaurus
Like a Brachiosaurus browsing high branches with its long neck, you take in the wide view at an unhurried pace.
Brachiosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Jurassic. Its name means “arm lizard”: its front legs were longer than its back legs, and it's thought to have held its neck up high. It's thought to have been about 20 meters (65 feet) long, and is said to have been able to reach leaves in tall trees.
Being so huge, it's thought to have eaten a great many plants every day. Like a Brachiosaurus, rather than going after one particular thing, you keep nibbling slowly, a little at a time, at whatever is within reach. And with your head held high, you're also someone who takes in the view far into the distance.
In its skull, the openings for the nostrils sat higher than the eyes, which once led to a theory that it lived in water, but today it's thought to have lived on land. It had no ornaments like horns or a sail; just itself. Because you take things at an unhurried pace, your answers to urgent matters can come late. Asking up front whether something is urgent saves you from scrambling.
Strengths
- You can look far ahead and think things through at an easy pace
- You can keep taking in a little of what's around you over time
- You stay calm even when something sudden happens
Where you may stumble
- When someone needs a quick answer, time runs out before your thoughts come together
- While you're taking it easy, the conversation around you moves on
- While you're looking into the distance, the small tasks right in front of you get put off
Sounds familiar, Brachiosaurus?
- When meeting someone, you stand wherever has the widest view
- You have several half-read books and move each one along whenever you feel like it
- You only start thinking about your reply after asking, “Is it urgent?”
Where you shine
Situations that call for looking far ahead, or for someone who stays calm and unhurried. Your long view lets you notice changes coming that others might miss.
Tips for “Brachiosaurus”
- For urgent matters, reply “Thinking it over” first
- After looking far ahead, decide on one small task to do today
- Every so often, match someone else's pace and walk alongside them
Matches
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Tyrannosaurus — Tyrannosaurus also stands its ground and doesn't dress things up. With Tyrannosaurus narrowing things down to one target around, even Brachiosaurus's wide-ranging talk finds somewhere to land.
Triceratops — Triceratops also stands its ground, grazing the plants around it. They share the same slow rhythm, and Triceratops, with its clear markers, gets their shared ideas across to others on behalf of unadorned Brachiosaurus.
Pteranodon — Pteranodon, crest held high, swoops down fast on its prey. Brachiosaurus settles in and grazes widely, while Pteranodon takes off at once, so they differ in how fast they talk and how fast they decide, and each finds the other's pace hard to grasp.
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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