Gyrobob
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Dj12midnit wrote on 03/12/13 at 19:24:04:OK someone explain this fascination to me? Last thing I want to know when I am riding is what time is it. It depends on your personality type. In a previous life, I was a consultant, and one of the qualifications I had to develop was Myers-Briggs Personality Typing. I was a certificated MB person.
It turns out some folks hate anything having to do with a schedule, and some folks are just the opposite. -- The folks that are the opposite feel uncomfortable without a sense of time around. ---- Not knowing how much time they have spent on something or how much time they have left for something adds angst. ---- They feel more pleasant knowing how things are going schedule-wise. ---- They will often set up schedules, even if just informally, to give them a feeling of being on track and not having to worry about getting to the next "event" in a timely manner. ---- These folks will even put time in their schedule for unscheduled time. Planned spontenaity. ---- Some of these folks actually enjoy setting up a detailed schedule and then tracking their progress throughout the day. ---- They can function just fine without any time indications, but they prefer to have a watch, or a wall clock, and/or any schedule of some sort handy, even if the schedule is nothing more formal than, "Let's see,.. it's about noon,.. tell ya what, I'll go mow the lawn, I'll go for a short ride, and then we'll go out for dinner around 5." -- The folks who care nothing about time feel restricted by schedules, and don't want to be bothered with how much time they have left. They don't sense any angst about anything until, uh-oh, they're late for an event, or they didn't get that payment in on time.
These two groups of folks (and their percentages are about evenly split out there in humankind) drive each other crazy if they don't understand each other. If they do understand each other, they can work really well as a team, relying on each others' skills, strengths, and natural preferences.
There! Now you've had you management consulting lesson for today!
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