Can You Match These 20 People With Their Habits

As a second follow up to my post The 15 Laws of Habits...here’s another fun quiz on habits to test your knowledge and intuition.

Listed below are 20 habits and 20 people.  See if you can match up the habits with one of the 20 people listed. After you finish doing so, think about the habits. Which habits are productivity habits, which habits are health habits, which habits are dress habits, which habits are really experiments, which habits are comfort habits, which habits are style habits, which habits are superstitious habits, which habits are stress-release habits, which habits are fussy habits, which habits are leisure time habits, which habits are neurotic habits, which habits are just eccentricities.  Try and list your own habits in these different categories, as well as in any other categories you can think of. I used to have a habit of easily getting into a rage, which does not fall into any of the categories above, and which, I am happy to report I was able to conquer. My mother's death motivated me to change - as I report in this post. Also, you may want to think about the difference between addictions and habits.  Is the difference simply that addictions are bad for you and hard to quit, whereas habits are good or harmless for you?  Okay...on to the 20 people and their habits quiz.  Ready? Here you go...

These Are the Habits:

1.     Habit of drinking 40-50 cups a day

2.     Habit of taking cold air baths every morning (by stripping down and opening the windows)

3.     Habit of wearing  sweaters in Chennai

4.     Habit of rocking in a chair to relax

5.     Habit of eating homemade food even when he went to a restaurant

6.     Habit of carrying hand-sanitizer everywhere to avoid germs

7.     Habit of spending long airless stints underwater to come up with inventions

8.     Habit of beginning work at 3:00 a.m. and ending at 11 p.m.

9.     Habit of avoiding adverbs

10. Habit of making his interviewees drink soup.  If they added salt before trying the soup they were out, because it indicated they had too many assumptions

11. Habit of running a comb through his hair 100 times a day

12. Habit of carrying mustaches in a jewel studded case and offering them to his friends

13. Habit of not eating food that does not have an ancient Greek or Hebrew name

14. Habit of cracking safes

15. Habit of working on a personal scrapbook for 66 years

16. Habit of painting with a hangover

17. Habit of always crossing the threshold of a plane with the right foot

18. Habit of eating purple foods such as beets, eggplants and grapes 3 times a week

19. Habit of wearing earplugs, earmuffs and a blindfold when he writes

20. Habit of collecting taxidermied animal heads

These Are The People You Have To Match With One Of The Habits Listed Above:

1.     Francis Bacon

2.     Voltaire

3.     Richard Feynman

4.     Amanda Seyfried

5.     Donald Trump

6.     Stephen King

7.     Salvador Dali

8.     Charles Dickens

9.     Nikola Tesla

10. Minoo

11. Bill Gates

12. Hugh Hefner

13. Thomas Alva Edison

14. Richard Buckminister Fuller

15. Benjamin Franklin

16. Jennifer Aniston

17. Sir Dr. NakaMats

18. Jonathan Franzen

19. Nassim Talib

20. Mariah Carey

How Many Did You Get Right? Here Are The Answers:

1.     Habit of drinking 40-50 cups a day - Voltaire

2.     Habit of taking cold air baths every morning (stripping down and opening the windows - Benjamin Franklin

3.     Habit of wearing sweaters in Chennai - Minoo

4.     Habit of rocking in a chair to relax - Bill Gates

5.     Habit of eating homemade food even when he went to a restaurant - Hugh Hefner

6.     Habit of carrying hand sanitizer everywhere to avoid germs - Donald Trump

7.     Habit of spending long airless stints underwater to come up with inventions - Sir Dr. NakaMats

8.     Habit of beginning work at 3:00 a.m. and ending at 11 p.m. - Nikola Tesla

9.     Habit of avoiding adverbs - Stephen King

10. Habit of making interview candidates drink soup.  If they added salt before trying the soup, they were out, because it indicated they had too many assumptions - Thomas Alva Edison

11. Habit of running a comb through his hair 100 times a day - Charles Dickens

12. Habit of carrying mustaches in a jewel studded case and offering them to his friends - Salvador Dali

13. Habit of not eating food that does not have an ancient Greek or Hebrew name - Nassim Talib

14. Habit of cracking safes - Richard Feynman

15. Habit of scrapbooking for 66 years - Richard Buckminister Fuller

16. Habit of painting with a hangover - Francis Bacon

17. Habit of always crossing the threshold of a plane with the right foot - Jennifer Aniston

18. Habit of eating purple foods such as beets, eggplant s and grapes 3 times a week - Mariah Carey

19. Habit of wearing earplugs, earmuffs and a blindfold when writing - Jonathan Franzen

20. Habit of collecting taxidermied animal heads - Amanda Seyfried

Before You Go:

Hope you enjoyed this 3rd and last post on habits. I'll be interested to know what are some of the interesting habits of people you know. Meanwhile, thanks for the feedback, (comments, likes, shares) on my recent posts. I appreciate the kudos from old friends, new friends, and relatives who have become friends. You keep me going.

ALSO, thanks for sharing my journey to wisdom, meaning and a better life.  Like you, I am trying to find my way through this complex maze we call life, and I am honored to have you share my journey, as I continue to seek the wisdom hidden in plain sight.

FINALLY, A Happy Birthday shout-out:  to those with January birthdays. I hope you will use your birthday month to examine your habits -  and to decide which ones to keep and which ones to discard. Ideally, you should also select some brand new habits to introduce in your life - ones which you will be proud of when December 31, 2019 rolls around. You can use the inspiration from my post The 15 Laws of Habits to drum up some motivation.

To all my readers, have a blessed “doing good for yourself while doing good for others week”, and see you next week