After Thomas Erikson · Surrounded by Idiots
Which color are you?
24 questions. Maybe five minutes if you don't overthink it (which, depending on your color, you will or won't). At the end you get back a color, a real read on how you actually work, and a few notes on who you probably shouldn't try to manage.
Red
Dominant, driven, direct.
≈ 9% of people
Yellow
Inspiring, social, optimistic.
≈ 9% of people
Green
Stable, supportive, patient.
≈ 40% of people
Blue
Analytical, precise, methodical.
≈ 18% of people
* Remaining ≈24% are two-color blends — the most common form.
The Method
- DDominance
- IInfluence
- SStability
- CCompliance
This is DISC. Dominance, Influence, Stability, Compliance. The framework's been kicking around since 1928, originally from a book called Emotions of Normal People by William Moulton Marston (who, fun side note, also invented the polygraph and Wonder Woman). Walter Clarke turned it into an actual usable test in the 1950s. The color-coded version most people know now is Thomas Erikson's, from his book Surrounded by Idiots, which came out in Sweden in 2014 and got translated everywhere after.
Four colors: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue. Most people are a mix of two. The test below will sort out which one leads. None of them are better than the others — they're just different patterns of how a person operates. Answer honestly. Nobody's grading you.