Thursday, February 20, 2003 AD What Is It With That? Why do some people, when you ask them a direct question, answer a completely different question? I can't figure out, in the case I'm thinking of, whether the person in question A) is incapable of comprehending a simple question (he's not too bright), B) is so caught up in looking at the big picture that he can't focus on the specifics (he's got a personality that's different from mine), or C) is just so full of himself that he's willing to bulldoze over my agenda to promote his own (he's a jerk). There's a part of me that's reacting as if it's option C, but I'm trying to convince myself that it's option B. Or maybe it's a mix of both -- he's got that big-picture point of view, and he hasn't learned to be aware of the pitfalls associated with it. I've noticed that other people with that proclivity -- big-picture visionary types -- can drive me nuts for various reasons. So I need to learn to be aware of the pitfall of misinterpreting their responses and getting peeved when I interact with them. And I need to be aware of the pitfalls of my more detail-oriented personality. For instance, I can get paralyzed when confronting the distance between point X and point Y because I see the infinite number of points on the straight line between them. Not to mention the obstacles around which the line, quite deprived of its straightness, must navigate. I also need to learn that it's OK to say stop, slow down, back up, listen, etc. Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 2/20/2003 04:16:00 PM
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