Did you ever ask yourself the question while using Voice123, “If I follow all the rules people tell me, why do not I get voiceover work?”
Forever in the search to tap into the hidden triggers behind “how to best fascinate others while doing what one loves…and do so well enough to get work ”, I came across this personality test over the weekend.
In truth, what you love to do may not be fascinating enough to others long enough to pay the bills, and it may just come from not understanding your personality, as you may have dormant triggers just waiting to be discovered!
So I took this F-Score test over the weekend.
I found out what triggers seem to work for me, and most importantly, which one I have not tapped into yet. It is true certain personalities are a tough fit for certain industries. You may be in love with what you do, but you may also find some other things are holding you back unintentionally. After all, selling your “voice” is a bit like selling a piece of you, and if you do not know your product, others wont know either.
If I show you mine, will you show me yours? 
Let’s discuss! The answers may surprise you!
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Dave Hickman
February 14, 2012
Hi Steven,
This is fascinating! And, OK, I’ll show you mine….primary trigger is trust, secondary is mystique, and the dormant one is prestige. Haven’t quite figured out what this all means yet because I only just took the test, but I’m guessing it might be quite a challenge to get those three working together!
Dave
jill
February 15, 2012
ok, i’ll bite. i’m the maestro. primary trigger: power. secondary trigger: prestige. dormant trigger: mystique.
Steven Lowell
February 15, 2012
Ok, I promised!
Primary Trigger: Prestige
Secondary Trigger: Rebellion
Dormant: Power I was thinking back to the days when I used to act in theatre and teachers used to tell me, ‘Dont give up so much power. Take the risk!’. I was thinking Dave, maybe you have people’s trust so much so, that you can start exercising prestige into your marketing to show the prestige behind being one who is trusted. A dormant trigger of mystique is quite interesting, Jill.
What do you make of this?
Anne Ganguzza (@aganguzza)
February 15, 2012
Primary: Passion
Secondary: Prestige
Dormant: Power
My archetype:
PASSION + PRESTIGE = The Talent
Perhaps it’s a good thing that I am a Voice Talent!
I always try to gauge which auditions to do based on if I am “feeling” the script, or if it speaks to me.
True Voices by Janet
February 15, 2012
My Primary Trigger Passion, secondary is alarm and dormant is power.
I think the passion can sometimes overwhelm people. But mostly it draws them in closer to me. I have NO idea how to use this in my VO business though. Maybe I need the book?
True Voices by Janet
February 15, 2012
PASSION + ALARM = The Accelerator
(forgot this part)
SO what does this mean??? I move people quickly?
That means that my primary voice over focus is commercials?
Then how do I use that to get clients when I am not face to face and not able to use my physical passion and alarm?
Dave
February 15, 2012
All righty, then.
Primary: Prestige
Secondary: Rebellion
Dormant: Trust
Result: Avant-Garde
Now I just have to figure out what this means vis-a-vis my career.
Steven Lowell
February 15, 2012
Dave, it looks like you are a trend setter.
I think it means you create what happens to you next, and the answer may rest in your dormant triggers.
Menna Bonsels
February 18, 2012
Hi Janet,
Me too! Only 2per cent of the people who took the poll have this combination of primary and secondary triggers apparently. I wondered if it meant we scare the clients into giving us the work quickly before they lose us?
True Voices by Janet
February 19, 2012
Menna,
The funny thing is that when I thinking about all of this, I realized I parent and speak to my children in this passionate, alarming manner. I DO often use negative consequence examples when I am giving them a specific set of choices. I don’t do it to scare them, but I do want them to make the knowledgable choice knowing the negative and the positive.
The question would be, what does that look like for sales and marketing in our voice over business? I think what it could look like is this…we can put a very positive spin on what negative things can happen should they choose someone else beside us for their voice over.
I think this combination accelerates the decision makers ultimate decision. I think it can be very positive for them AND us.
Menna Bonsels
February 19, 2012
Actually, now you mention it, I probably parent in much the same way as you do, so that the children are informed about the pluses and minuses when they decide what they are going to do. And I can see what you mean about how it might work in the voice over business too. It’ll be interesting to see whether I can discern a pattern in my sales. I am still not entirely sure about the alarm aspect, but maybe it reflects in my prompt reaction to getting to work on a script, even if it’s to mull it around and think about my approach to it before recording. I certainly don’t like sitting on work which isn’t in progress in some way or other. And I like to get well ahead of deadlines.