How Do You See the World?

The following will hopefully grow, with time, to be a collection of questions that can help you understand your view of the world, and compare it with the views of those near you:
  1. Assume that luckiness is a property that varies between different people, but is constant over the entire course of each person's life. Also assume that it only affects the small things in life (missing/catching the bus, beginner's luck in a friendly game, etc. Not landing a good job or meeting your life partner). Would you say your luckiness is above or below average? How close are you to the average?
  2. Would you rather have Justice or Mercy? (In your decisions? In the decisions that affect you? In the world?)
  3. Suppose you are under the impression it's Saturday afternoon, and suddenly you realise that it's actually Sunday - the work week just grew 24 hours closer. How does that make you feel?



Elucidation of questions
answer them before you read this
  1. People who tend to see the glass as half full will rate their luckiness as above average (glass half empty = below average). Smart asses will say that everybody is exactly average, but that's because they refuse to answer under the first assumption. (If you're a smart ass, try answering based on your subjective experience of this world, not on your reasoned analysis of it)
  2. I'm not sure exactly what this reflects of one's world view. My take on it is that a people-person would prefer mercy, while a systems-person would prefer justice. You can have your own take, but I find this a very interesting question.
  3. This one is actually pretty self-explanatory. I used to feel terrible when that happened to me. I was very pleasantly surprised a few weekends ago to find that it no longer bothers me at all - I like my job :-)

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