Vehicle Quiz
Sailing Ship
Setting sail with a big crew, you read the wind and slowly choose where to go.
A sailing ship moves by catching the wind in its sails. On a large sailing ship, many crew members work together to haul on the ropes, unfurling and furling the sails. In Japan, too, large sailing ships used to train ship crews still go out to sea.
A sailing ship can even make headway into the wind by zigzagging and changing direction. There are no fixed rails; it watches the wind and picks that day's route. So do you: you move slowly with lots of companions, watching what's going on around you and choosing your own way forward together.
When the wind dies, a sailing ship can't make the progress it wants. You're good at making use of the flow around you, but in places where nothing is moving, it can take you a while to decide where to start. It helps to settle on one thing you can do while you wait for the wind.
Strengths
- You can combine lots of people's efforts and move something big forward little by little
- Even when it feels like a headwind, you can change course and keep making progress
- You can take your time and look around before you act
Where you may stumble
- On days with nothing to set you off, it's hard to get moving
- As you keep rechoosing your route, you arrive later than planned
- While you wait to hear everyone's opinion, you end up being the last to decide
Sounds familiar, Sailing Ship?
- You notice the wind changing with the seasons before anyone else
- You talk longer about the scenery along the way than about where you were going
- When a few of you walk together, you stay a little behind, watching everyone's pace
Where you shine
Plans that lots of people move forward over a long time, or situations that aren't going the way anyone hoped. You read the wind and rechoose your route, so even the long way around keeps you moving forward.
Tips for “Sailing Ship”
- Decide in advance on one thing you can do on days when you're waiting for wind
- When you change course, say when you now expect to arrive
- Before you gather opinions, put forward one idea of your own
Matches
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Canoe — The Canoe also heads where it wants by watching the wind and the current. The Sailing Ship works its sails with a big crew and the Canoe is paddled by hand by a few, but on the same water you share the feeling of choosing your route without rushing.
Airplane — The Airplane takes off into a headwind, and the Sailing Ship zigzags its way into one. Both read the wind to pick a route, so you can trade stories about how you get along with it.
Bobsleigh — The Sailing Ship waits for the wind with a big crew and moves slowly while choosing its route, while the Bobsleigh shoots down a set course in one go with a small team. Both move in step with teammates, but at different speeds, so working together, one of you tends to end up waiting or rushing.
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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