OK THEN, WHICH ONE ARE YOU?

A week or so ago, I mentioned the recent research into the amount of choice open to us in our society, leading to confusion and depression among a growing number of people. Now quite possibly because I am among the terminally confused, a helpful piece of information has come to light, coutresy of http://www.confusednation.co.uk/ which might help identify the type of confusion we suffer from.

Thanks to the work of Dr. Peter Collett, it seems people fall into one of five categories depending on the type of confusion from which they are suffering. People are either:-

Floaters - who get confused because they can`t see the difference between the things they have to choose between;

Flippers - these are people who are capable of making choices but can`t stick to the choice they have made;

Flounders - these are people who avoid the negative consequences of choices by not making any decisions at all;

Fixers - these are the people who are not afraid to make decisions, they weigh up the pros and cons, they don`t mess around, they sort out the priorities and then make an informed choice; and finally.....

Flooders - these are the opposite; they are awash with choices, flooded with alternatives, are incapable of sorting out their priorities and end up totally confused.

There`s a helpful quiz on http://www.confusednation.co.uk/ which might help you decide which category you might fall into. As for me and I suspect quite a lot of my septuagenarian friends, I simply can`t make up my mind which category applies to me. Maybe it`s all of them? NURSE!!!