Cavers 答普鲁斯特问卷

普鲁斯特问卷 35 问 \ 姓名

01 What is your idea of perfect happiness? 你认为最完美的幸福是怎样的？
flexible hours + making recognised contribution towards a vision (that preferably pays well) + a doggo

02 What is your greatest fear? 你最大的恐惧是什么？
not able to think/ process information

03 What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? 你最痛恨自己的哪些特质？
lack of intellectual tenacity, shy away from intellectual challenges

04 What is the trait you most deplore in others? 你最痛恨别人的什么特质？
claiming to know more than they do, painfully stupid/ close-minded and generally mean without good reason

05 Which living person do you most admire? 还在世的人中你最景仰的是谁？
Paul Graham is full of surprising truths

06 What is your greatest extravagance? 什么对你来说是最奢侈的？
undivided attention. some novels/ conversations/ things/ money are attention sinks

07 What is your current state of mind? 你目前的心境怎样？
想上学，想多读书，想更严格的自我规范 not satisfied

08 What do you consider the most overrated virtue? 你认为哪种美德是被过高评价的？
social niceties, filial piety, working towards conventional definition of success

09 On what occasion do you lie? 什么情况下你会撒谎？
goal-orientated - 'greatest good for the greatest number'

10 What do you most dislike about your appearance? 你对自己的外表哪一点不满意？
chin

11 Which living person do you most despise? 还在世的人中你最鄙视谁？
can't remember. my brain erases the irrelevant and the obsolete

12 What is the quality you most like in a man? 你最喜欢男性身上的什么品质？
13 What is the quality you most like in a woman? 你最喜欢女性身上的什么品质？
I don't really care about gender. friend - humour, intellect, open-mindedness, reflective; crush - everything + creative flair

14 Which words or phrases do you most overuse? 你最常使用的单词或短语是什么？
sure, but

15 What or who is the greatest love of your life? 你这一生中的挚爱是谁/什么？
knowledge, surprises, ideals and reality

16 When and where were you happiest? 何时何地让你感觉到最快乐？
challenges + steep learning curve, loved and constantly surprised

17 Which talent would you most like to have? 你最想拥有哪种才能？
being able to understand other people's emotions & know what to do

18 If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? 如果你能够改变自己的一件事，那会是什么？
I want to be smarter

19 What do you consider your greatest achievement? 迄今为止你最引以为豪的成就是？
always biting off more than I can chew & not sorry about it

20 If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? 如果有转世，你希望成为什么样的人或物？
I don't really understand this question... a few possible assumptions under different (religious/ cultural) frameworks

21 Where would you most like to live? 你最想住在哪里？
somewhere with a lot of (diverse) culture, not a place that's too isolated/ with only one predominate culture

22 What is your most treasured possession? 你最珍贵的财产是什么？
resilience, 分析和处理信息的能力，执行力

23 What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? 你认为程度最浅的痛苦是什么？
boredom

24 What is your favorite occupation? 你最喜欢的职业是什么？
startup CEO

25 What is your most marked characteristic? 你最显著的特点是什么？
"life of the mind"

26 What do you most value in your friends? 你最看重朋友的什么特点？
we can learn from each other

27 Who are your favorite writers? 你最喜欢的作家是谁？
aesthetic：clarity，complex (but not deliberately)，北方/自然/游牧民族aesthetics（ie 蒙古往事 安娜卡列尼娜 东欧米兰昆德拉 Scottish Irish）
Kurt Vonnegut，Donne，JM Coetzee，Tim O' Brian，Milan Kundera

28 Who is your hero of fiction? 哪个虚构角色是你心目中的英雄？
probably Roark by Ayn Rand

29 Which historical figure do you most identify with? 你最认同哪位历史人物？

30 Who are your heroes in real life? 谁是你现实生活中的英雄？
Paul Graham and Bill Gates

31 What are your favorite names? 你最喜欢的名字是什么？
Joanne, Joanna, Angelica, Elisha, Whitman, Anna (the Russian Anna)
阿云嘎（或者任何一个蒙古名）

32 What is it that you most dislike? 你最不喜欢什么？
浪费时间

33 What is your greatest regret? 你最大的遗憾是什么？
有时候趋于惯性 没有作出应有的改变

34 How would you like to die? 你想以何种方式死去？
天葬或海葬

35 What is your motto? 你的座右铭是什么？stay upwind

additional questions:

what is your MBTI? what do you think of the concept of MBTI? - Amelia intp 其实我觉得mbti（不考虑荣格）的binary划分是非常局限和potentially misleading的 参见the end of average 但荣格对我来说有趣的一点是他指出了人格是可以有计划有方向有目标发展的

你是什么颜色的？ - yihui 明黄色

用一个物品来描述自己 - yihui a computer

听什么音乐起舞 - yihui 并不会跳舞

你的软肋是什么 - yihui 对原生家庭的义务/ 害怕孤独