<h1><span style="font-size: small;">Ideation</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">You are fascinated by ideas. What is an idea? An idea is a concept, the best explanation of the most events. You are delighted when you discover beneath the complex surface an elegantly simple concept to explain why things are the way they are. An idea is a connection. Yours is the kind of mind that is always looking for connections, and so you are intrigued when seemingly disparate phenomena can be linked by an obscure connection. An idea is a new perspective on familiar challenges. You revel in taking the world we all know and turning it around so we can view it from a strange but strangely enlightening angle. You love all these ideas because they are profound, because they are novel, because they are clarifying, because they are contrary, because they are bizarre. For all these reasons you derive a jolt of energy whenever a new idea occurs to you. Others may label you creative or original or conceptual or even smart. Perhaps you are all of these. Who can be sure? What you are sure of is that ideas are thrilling. And on most days this is enough.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Seek work in which you   will be paid for your ideas, such as marketing, advertising, journalism,   design, or new product development. Find work in which you will be given   credit for your ideas.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Yours is the kind of mind   that bores quickly, so make small changes in your work or home life. Experiment.   Play mental games with yourself. All of these will help keep you stimulated.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Seek brainstorming   sessions. With your abundance of ideas, you will make these sessions more   exciting and more productive.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Schedule time to read,   because the ideas and experiences of others can become your raw material for   new ideas. Schedule time to think, because thinking energizes you.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Discuss your ideas with   other people. Their responses will help you keep refining your ideas.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Finish your thoughts and   ideas before communicating them. Lacking your Ideation   strength, others might not be able to "join the dots" of an   interesting but incomplete idea, and thus might dismiss it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Partner with someone with   a strong Activator theme. This person can push you to put your ideas into practice. This   kind of exposure can only be good for your ideas.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Partner with someone with   a strong Analytical theme. This person will question you and   challenge you, therefore strengthening your ideas.</span></p>
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