My husband is a genius.
pure genius.
I was reading about his personality type yesterday. If you are familiar with Myers Briggs, he is a INTJ, appropriately titled "The Scientist". It's easy for this type of personality to run companies, solve huge problems and change structures. It's easy for them to manage people at an upper level but at the same time common for them to be misunderstood at an intimate level. Not at all their intention, its just the way their brain works.
I understand and love my Scientist.
Let me demonstrate how this works:
Brent: I don't understand how you always loose your cell phone.
Me: I dunno. I am always running around doing 100 things. I have so many things on my mind.
Brent: Me too. (this coming from the man that manages a thousand employees and millions of dollars)
Me: *getting defensive* Well, sometimes my pants don't have pockets (lamo excuse)
Brent: I have set spots for my cell phone. The buffet, my nightstand, my pocket or my cup holder
Me: *brain racing trying to come up with a rebuttal but instead I say* Oh. that's a good idea.
brilliant. sheer brilliance I tell you! ;) And this is how his brain thinks about everything! It's why he is AMAZING at what he does.
But... I of course am very different. I balance him big time because my personality is called the giver and I am completely focused on relationships. We often see life very differently . But for the most part I think we have learned to embrace who the other person is and friction (which every one has) usually creates balance for us.
My cell phone is now sitting in a set place.
The end.
3 comments:
Josh has a set place for everything too and he can never understand how I lose or forget things so easily. P.S. I think having a lot of things on my mind and a lot of things to do (especially with kids) is a valid excuse for losing and forgetting.
John is the same way as Brent, except when conversations like the one above arise I am not as gracious as you lol. I really WANT to have a set place for things so I don't lose them all the time but my brain doesn't always work and I forget lol. John gets frustrated with my memory lol.
sometimes the kids don't like our set places either...
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