Good day;
My name is Rene;
I just wonder why when redoing the test there would be drastic changes in one’s color code? My friend had done the test in 2009 with strong blue as primary color and white as secondary color. Now, after redoing the test, she says she is still blue as primary color but her secondary color has changed from white to red. She is very confused regarding her new results. I am puzzled too as you mention our color coding are coming from birth. Any explanation why their would be such a drastic change a few years down the road?
 
Thank you for your help!

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Hello, Rene.

Thank you so much for your excellent question! I understand how this could be confusing, and I hope that my response today will help clarify things for you.

So why would somebody take the Color Code Personality Assessment and come out a Blue Core with Secondary White, and then a few years later come out as a Blue Core with Secondary Red?

There are actually a couple of possibilities.

The first possibility is that your friend was not taking the assessment entirely properly. 🙂

Here’s what I mean. In the instructions, we ask the profile taker to answer the questions based on the earliest recollections they have of themselves. In other words, we ask you to answer the questions based on what you were most like as a child. The reason why ties back into our belief that Core Motive is innate, and therefore present at birth– just as you correctly mentioned as part of your question. We want to know what people are like before they begin to change based on external influences, or “filters”.

Sometimes profile takers skip over this part of the instructions and answer based on what they are most like today. That could certainly explain changes that occurred over a period of three to four years.

If people want to assess what they are like today, we actually recommend our Character Code Profile which is designed to address just that.

The second possibility here is that perhaps your friend’s sense of self-awareness in regard to how he/she actually was as a child has become more refined. It is very common for people to take the assessment the first time, learn more about the Color Code through a webinar, workshop or personal study, and then want to retake the assessment as they understand things a little more clearly.

My experience is that the second time that they take it, they usually feel like they are viewing themselves a little more accurately. They typically see themselves more for who they actually are as opposed to what they would like to become. This is commonly a function of feeling less insecure about themselves and less apprehensive about the assessment process in general.

My own personal experience with the Color Code was actually quite like this. The first time I took the assessment, I came out about 51% Yellow and about 49% Red. Once I learned more about it and took the assessment a little more carefully, I actually discovered that I am a “Purist” Yellow (meaning I have no significant secondary Color) scoring at about 82% in the Yellow category.

Thanks again for taking the time to email me with your question, Rene. I hope that my answer is helpful for you and for you friend. Please let us know if we can do anything else to help you.

Very best of living,

Jeremy Daniel

Jeremy Daniel (Core Color: Yellow) has been working with the Color Code since 1998 in various capacities from training in the field personally with Dr. Taylor Hartman to designing customized corporate solutions and new training programs for various industries.  To ask about Jeremy’s training or speaking services, please email and inquiry to jeremy@colorcodetraining.com.