The HBDI® Individual Report: Adolescent Education, Educational Focus, Occupation and Hobbies:

    What's this all about?

Thinkers often have questions about the bar graphs on the HBDI^® Data Sheet report.

The HBDI® Sections: Adolescent Education, Educational Focus, Occupation and Hobbies 

Within the HBDI® HBDI Data Summary Report for an Individual, you will see the display below.

There are four sections, each one related to a section or question in the HBDI® Thinking Styles Assessment. 

The HBDI® data has been consolidated, sorted into quadrants and grouped together for the purposes of comparison. The bar chart indicates the distribution of preferences for each of the above categories. The longer the bar, the greater the preference for that quadrant. If no bar appears in a quadrant, there was no significant data in that quadrant in response to your selections.

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An indicator of an earlier, often influential time of your life, ranking adolescent school subjects (math, foreign language or native language) can indicate a possible inclination toward specific thinking styles.  Clues are provided about the tilt of your mental preferences through understanding your preferred subjects in school.  Additional clues are provided based on your choice of education focus  and your occupational choices.

 How you spend your leisure time is an additional section of the HBDI® assessment.  Your hobbies are an interesting clue into thinking preferences.  Hobbies are evaluated not on the characteristics of the hobbies themselves, but rather on the preferences of those people who engage in those particular activities.  The hobbies provided as choices in the HBDI® assessment have been reviewed and evaluated taking many thousands of individual’s data into account.

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You may wonder: How do we actually develop new preferences in practice?

The object of the HBDI® Profile is not to change preferences, but rather to be more effective, accept the consequences of our preferences and not become trapped by them. Our preferences cannot be changed just because it might seem like a nice idea. Situational change is preferable in order to achieve new personal or professional objectives, when we have begun to view our current preferences as incompatible with our activities or life goals. Without this kind of motivation, preferences are unlikely to change quickly. However if you do wish to develop new preferences, our advice is to start the process in your private life first rather than in the workplace — for example, in free time activities or other hobbies. This private approach always entails fewer risks of consequences for mistakes made, and generally allows more freedom of choice. For example, if you want to develop approaches that are more C quadrant oriented, you might decide to purchase season tickets to a concert series, or take yoga classes. Conversely, if you want to develop greater comfort with the A quadrant you might enroll in a course on how to invest in the stock market, or get more interested in technology. In the Activities and Hobbies table located in the D section, you will find a wide range of activities you might consider when seeking to become more comfortable with a particular preference. Pick one, stick with it,  and you are bound to succeed.

The display below contains activities placed into the quadrants that relate to the preferences of those who prefer them. While a specific activity does not have a profile, the person who is engaging in an activity does. This list is based on the hobbies that are most preferred by thinkers in a particular quadrant. Each activity can be explored using a Whole Brain® approach.

List the activities you engage in regularly:
Do some belong to the quadrant you wish to stretch or develop? If the answer is no, consider activities you might take up to extend your range of preferences.