Follow-up test

Effective thinking skills

  • Can you think of anyone who has achieved a degree of personal success who lacks good judgment in their business?
  • Has anyone commented in the last year on your clarity of mind?
  • Apart from your analytical skills, are you able also to think holistically, to see the whole wood and not just the trees?
  • Would you describe yourself as good at visualizing things you haven't directly experienced yourself?
  • Has anyone praised you for your imagination within the last year?
  • Have you invented or made anything recently, at work or in your leisure time, that definitely required imagination?
  • Do you tend to foresee accurately what happens before the event?
  • Where possible, do you build into your plans time to ‘sleep on ...

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