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Personality Match
Like Albert Speer, you are intellectually minded. You see yourself as an observer of events rather than as a partaker in them - as someone who analyzes rather than influences, and thinks rather than does. However, you should remember that your detached analytical stance does not make you an innocent bystander in life and that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Passivity is also a choice that affects others.
Words of Warning
Points to consider for people with your personality - have you ever:

• Shrugged your shoulders and given up trying to apply your own sense of what you knew was right, simply because other people's outlooks seemed so far from yours?
• Come across as insensitive and absent-minded because you were so lost in your own inner analyses that you did not want to extend your attention to anything else?
• Put your considerable analytical skills to work at solving problems that it would perhaps not be entirely ethical to solve, thinking only of the technical side of the situation, and not the moral one?
• Diminished your own productivity by ceaselessly hunting down minor imperfections and mistakes in your own work, and constantly undoing the progress that you had made?
• Knowingly wasted your talents because you "did not see the point" of all the striving and self-assertion that usually goes along with accomplishment and achievement?

Scientific Research
According to studies from Cambridge University (UK) and Texas AM University (US), your scores indicate that you are:

• Likely to have a richer vocabulary than the average person.
• Likely to be more knowledgeable than the average person on political and societal issues.
• Likely to have a quicker understanding of abstract concepts and ideas than the average person.
• More critical, cold-headed, and detached than the average person.
• More suspicious of the motives of others than the average person and quicker to detect a lie or an attempt to manipulate you than the average person.
• More at ease with making cynical and tough decisions than the average person.
• More likely than the average person to be barbed and acerbic with people who irritate you.
• Less preoccupied than the average person with how you are perceived in the eyes of others.
• More psychologically robust and better at absorbing shocks and setbacks than the average person.
• Less worried about stressors and threats in your environment than the average person; not being one to be easily irritated or upset.
• Someone who performs better under pressure than the average person.

Historical Background
Albert Speer (1905-1981) was a German architect who served as the Third Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for part of World War II. Speer became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931. His impressive architectural skills won him entry into Hitler's inner circle. He designed stadiums for Nazi Party rallies. In 1942, he was appointed to the war production cabinet position. Despite constant Allied bombings, German war production continued to increase while he was in charge.
In 1946, he was tried at Nuremberg and was apologetic for his crimes. He was sentenced to twenty years, mainly due to his use of forced labor for production. He served most of his sentence in Spandau Prison and spent his remaining years living in relative obscurity in West Germany. He published three books about his experiences with the Third Reich and died in 1981 of natural causes.


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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde