life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty

More accurate than a Buzzfeed quiz; less accurate than your therapist’s raised eyebrow.🤨

 

🔧 Which Hand Tool Should Be First in Your Belt? 🪚

 

Everyone has a way of fixing things. Let’s find yours.

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1. When something breaks, you:

    A. Inspect carefully

    B. Apply force

    C. Ask for guidance    

    D. Improvise

 

2. Your problem-solving style is:

    A. Methodical

    B. Direct

    C. Collaborative    

    D. Creative

 

3. You pride yourself on being:

    A. Precise

    B. Effective

    C. Dependable    

    D. Adaptable

 

4. In a crisis, you’re the one who:

    A. Diagnoses the issue

    B. Takes action

    C. Keeps people calm    

    D. Finds an alternative

 

5. Your work style favors:

    A. Accuracy

    B. Speed

    C. Consistency    

    D. Flexibility

 

Results in the comments!

 

[quiz generated by chatGPT; the title quotation is by Anne Lamott, from Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith. More fully, it reads as follows.]

 

It's funny, I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty—and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.