Engineers Like Rulers

I’ve recently discovered a metric for evaluating people and their motives.  It’s a very generalized one, but it works pretty well.  People have a three dimensional drive system: past, present, and future.   From this you can set up a standard 3D coordinate system and, if you give everyone a vector with the same magnitude, you have a system for expressing people.

I need Photoshop so I can make these clearly

I’ll demonstrate it by going about an exercise of placing yourself.  Many people consider themselves to be “future” oriented or “present” oriented in their mindsets.  But not many people consider the past when it comes to their personality.  So let’s just start with a 2D analysis.  Do you live in the moment, or do you have a focus on the future?  If you had ten points, how would you quantify yourself?  For instance I would place seven points into future focus and three points into present.  Make sure you pause for a moment and really think about this if you’re taking this exercise seriously.

Now that we know that, let’s define another field.  How much does the past define you?  Or how badly do you want to change yourself?  A lot of people have regrets that shape the way they behave, everyone is influenced significantly by their past.  The question is how much you let that influence govern you.   Again, do this on a scale of 1-10.  So now that we’ve got that value let’s correct our other two.

(10-PAST) X FUTURE / 10 = TRUE FUTURE

(10-PAST) X PRESENT / 10 = TRUE PRESENT

Where TRUE FUTURE + PAST + TRUE PRESENT = 10

And there you go.  Now you just graph those values in 3D and you have your personal metric. Of course, it’s a lot harder to do others, but I still think this is a noteworthy way to measure people.  It’s also worth noting that the flaw here is self-awareness.  The more self-aware you are, the more accurate this will be: you cannot evaluate actions and emotions that you are not conscious of.