All Possible Power Program Quiz Rankings
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These are apparently people who have many Jesus-like characteristics, in particular
with no recognizable concern for power or status. You insult them and they turn the
other cheek. "We are all god's children after all," they might say. "We all have flaws."
They are unconcerned with wealth or possessions and are generally kind and
considerate. They can be hard workers and have aspirations, but appear unconcerned
with promotion, or achieving a higher rank. If it comes, they are embarrassed to
acknowledge it and may fear it. They would gladly give away everything they owned, it
seems, if they thought the cause was a noble one. They are humble, modest, and polite
in their dealings with others. There is something in their brain chemistry that obviates or
significantly dampens such normal emotions and drives as jealousy, envy, hatred and
vengeance. It would appear, unfortunately, that the design of the power/status system
allows only for a relative handful of people like these on the planet. Were there only
more of them.
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These are people who appear almost as saintly as those on level one, but do,
apparently, feel some stirring of power and status. They will feel mildly upset if
insulted, although probably not significantly vengeful. They may have strong
aspirations, but are not mentally punished after defeats. They are not overly sensitive
to the expectancies of power and rank. If they win, fine. If they lose, fine. They are
usually submissive to authority at work or in the home and even when this authority is
stifling, they won't complain, or if they do, it is not strident. They are not contrarian.
Whether happy or not, they are probably accepting of their station in life.
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These people can be hard workers and diligent in other ways; they want to succeed in
the tasks they do, they may have high aspirations for a more ennobling or rewarding
life, but are not seemingly anxious to rise to any position where they need to supervise
others, particularly in the workplace. The thought of being in authority appears to make
them uncomfortable. They are content to defer to leaders at work and stronger family
members and stay out of the limelight. Nonetheless, they can feel mild jealousy and
envy if someone on their block has a better car or a neighbor or co-worker was
promoted. They can be accepting of other ethnic groups. They are the worker bees of
society and content with that role.
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These people are apparently not preoccupied with gaining power, but accept it if
comes their way. At home or in the office they are content with being in a subordinate
role, if that's the way it is. As supervisors they would tend to promote harmony and
readily accept input from colleagues and subordinates. If challenged in the workplace or
home, they will feel anger, resentment, and vengeance, but the feelings won't be as
long lasting as they might be at the higher levels. They will feel jealousy and envy when
those in their social circle gain in status, but again the feelings aren't lasting as they
more quickly adapt to reality.
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These people are where most of us are at, the more balanced of us. They may
be ambitious and have strong aspirations to be successful in their endeavors in order to
satisfy their expectancies as well as provide better for their families, but they are not
abusive in the process. They won't walk over family, friends, and co-workers to get
ahead or achieve their goals. They might be disappointed in achieving less than a high
leadership rank, but they accept it and get on with their lives. As supervisors they would
tend to promote harmony. They are prone to normal levels of jealousy and envy when
others they know gain status over them in terms of career promotions or having a better
car or backyard deck. Some at this level may look down on others, measuring their
status against them, but it is usually not overt. Among the fives (perhaps also the fours
and even the threes) would be those humans we consider the salt of the earth. These
are the Washingtons and Lincolns and the characters frequently played in the classical
western motion pictures, as previously described, who take the mantle of leadership
and handle it gracefully when it comes their way, but then reject enduring dominance
and authority when offered to them, preferring to ride off in the sunset.
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These people presumably like the feeling of power and will work hard to gain it,
even though the quest doesn't entirely consume them. They would like to be at the top,
want to lead, and are extremely disappointed when they don't succeed. They may
accept failure, but only grudgingly. It rankles as punishing feelings such as anger,
hostility, and resentment linger. As supervisors they may have their moments when
they intimidate and abuse, but it isn't something they crave to do. Their aggressive and
intimidating moments emerge in the heat of battle, as they pursue perfection or
authority or to win a competition or a challenge and wonder in calmer moments, why
they lost it and may feel guilt and remorse.
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These people strive even harder to gain power and status. As supervisors they
can be intimidating, abusive, and bullying if they think the behavior will serve their
purposes. They will feel only small levels of guilt or remorse in the midst or aftermath of
such behavior, but not enough to keep them from repeating it. They enjoy the feeling of
being in a dominant position, it gives them a high. They would be extremely jealous
and envious of peers who gain status over them. They will do practically anything to
match or better them. When faced with a challenge or in a competition, they can be
excessively aggressive. They may be prime candidates for some form of bigotry. They
may need others to look down upon. In situations where they find themselves being
perceived as lower in rank, they will feel annoyed, resentful, and humiliated.
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These people are apparently consumed absolutely with moving upward in their
families, careers, and avocations. They need to dominate. They feel a pathological
high from the fight and challenge of moving upward as much as being there. They are
arrogant, rude, selfish, and egoistic. As supervisors, they can be naturally intimidating
and abusive, feeling no guilt or remorse, from the experiences, but on the contrary,
savoring a mild high. They can be cunning and manipulative against their own peers
and supervisors as they try to maneuver themselves upward. They can become
insanely jealous, envious, and vengeful if other peers in their circle gain status over
them. If someone on the block gets a better car, they will be out shopping for an even
better one that same week if they can afford it, and even when they can't afford it. On
the social side, they probably believe they are better than others, even though they may
be found on a Sunday morning feeding the poor at a shelter. The experience makes
them look humble, but in fact gives them a rewarding feeling of status. They can be
messianic in their beliefs and attitudes. They know it all, you don't. As a sailboat
captain on a small lake, they would be Napoleonic. In competition, winning is not the
only thing, it is everything. Do they have rational aspirations? Perhaps so, but they are
apparently overwhelmed by their need to dominate. Nothing that goes wrong is their
fault.
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These people are everything the eights are, but are also willing to do anything
they deem necessary to claw their way to the top in whatever their endeavors. They
are willing to sacrifice family, friends, peers, subordinates, whatever it takes to succeed
at whatever enterprise or competition in which they are momentarily engaged. They will
plagiarize and cheat, if they think they can get away with it, without compunction. As
supervisors at work, they are absolutely dominant. They are beyond arrogant and
egoistic. Being intimidating, rude, and abusive makes their day, it gives them highs that
emanate from their flawed reward or pleasure systems. Their authority or knowledge
can't be questioned. At work, they are trusting of only an inner circle that has proved
loyal over the years. If they are thwarted in their rise to power at work, they will become
bullies to those they are successful in subjugating, even wives and children. On the
social side, they know they are better than anyone else, and in particular members of
any other social group. Outside of work they are comfortable only with friends who have
reached their station in life and belong to or patronize their elitist clubs or watering
holes. They can feel intense bigotry. They are paranoid about potential threats to their
position and will take unreasoned actions against others they perceive as being out to
get them. They may relish formality and disdain informality. They are frequently unable
to tolerate being addressed by their first names by people they perceive as beneath
them. They will meet challenges and competition with the equivalent of panzer tanks, if
that's what it takes. These people, in other words, are not a lot of fun.
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These people have all the characteristics of a level nine, but they are more
intense. In psychiatric measurement, they may be described as "severe" extreme
power freaks, and in their case it's not redundant. They include the Adolph Hitlers, Pot
Pols, Joseph Stalins, and Slabodan Milosevics of the world. Dominating and
subjugating others makes their day. They are definitely psychopathic and would kill
without compunction if they thought they could get away with it. In the case of the
Hitlers, Pot Pols, et al, they were in a position of authorizing murder and did so. The
level ten in the workplace is refrained from killing by the threat of punishment, the most
common form of controlling psychopaths throughout history. Their brain structures are
incapable of creating the chemicals that develop feelings of guilt and remorse. Thus,
they can be merciless in eliminating whoever or whatever gets in their way. As
psychopathic alphas, there is probably a messianic aura that surrounds them,
frightening many others, while at the same time attracting them and molding them to
their wills. They think they know everything, there is nothing you can teach them. They
will defend their turf to the death, if necessary, and believe that they are better than
anyone in the world. They look down on everyone. Stay out of their way.
(NOTE: More than 200,000 persons have taken this quiz. Responses for 50,000 were monitored for a period of time, only involving the the numbered answers computed. No confidentiality was violated. A table of the results was published in Battling the Inner Dummy on page 109.)