Answers to - Are you Sane?

The genuinely sane person would answer these questions as follows. If you are interested in why then read this article by Hayakawa and find out.

1. No (Sane people are not, the ordinary sense of the term, "well-adjusted." His relation to the society around him may be described somewhat as follows: h is in and of the society of which he is a member, but he is ot a prisoner of that society.)
2. Yes (The sane person is to an unusual degree accessibly aware of his feelings, emotions etc.)
3. A little (It is the individual who knows how little he knows about himself who stands a reasonable chance of finding out something about himself/herself before he dies.)
4. Yes (Genuinely sane people can tolerate the amiguous in life; they do not neglect the unknown, or deny it, or run away from it, or try to mkake believe it really is known, nor do they roganize it prematurely.)
5. Yes (A genuinely sane person can tolerate much ambiguity where amiguity exits; receiving much conflicting information without forcing closure on the situation.)
6. Low (Genuinely sane people have a wonderful capacity to experience at lower levels of abstraction; they react to the specific without placing events, perceptions, people etc. into categories.)
7. Yes (The genuinely sane person can accept themselves at all leves (love, safety, belongingness, honor, self-respect as long as all the so called lower levels.)
8. No (The genuinely sane person does not view what they do as a means to an end, but rather as an act of pleasure to be undertaken for its own sake.)
9. Yes (Because the fully functioning person's experience, past and present, are accessible to awareness, because he sees freshly and without rigid categorizing or labeling of the situation before him, he lutimately is his own judge of what is the needed solution for any given problem.
10. Yes (Because such feelings can arise from non-neurotic sources in this troubled world -- so that externally he (or she) may look just as troubled and act just as troubled as a neurotic person, because there are troubles in the world which cause doubt, anxiety, and forboding. But his troubles would be real ones and not self-contrived ones.)