Dear Sam,

Thanks for asking this excellent question. If you feel like your childhood was negatively impacted in some way (e.g., abuse, trauma, etc.), then yes, you would need to take it from a different perspective.

For most people, the instructions help them achieve the best results. For the smaller percentage of the population with a tumultuous childhood, we recommend taking the assessment differently.

The instructions we give to people in that category are to take the assessment based on the first time of your life where you felt like you were being most natural “you” possible. Meaning, you didn’t have to act a certain way “for survival”, to use your words.

What we are aiming for, ultimately, is for people to be able to identify their nature – not what they’ve become through nurture. The reason we do this is because we are trying to identify your Driving Core Motive, which we believe to be innate and completely intact at birth.

If you felt like the most “natural” version of yourself at 25 or 37, or 94 years of age, that’s where we would start for you because of your own special circumstances.

Thanks again for asking. I hope that makes sense to you.

Very best of living,

Jeremy Daniel
Training Director
Color Code International

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.