{"id":65098,"date":"2023-02-24T09:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65098"},"modified":"2023-02-24T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:03:15","slug":"we-underappreciate-how-different-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65098","title":{"rendered":"We Underappreciate How Different We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We Underappreciate How Different We Are<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo by\u00a0Joshua Fuller<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A<\/span>fter I started working for my current employer, I met a colleague with whom I simply could not work with. We disagreed on almost everything \u2014 not on a factual level, but rather on how we approach working with problems and identify solutions. I felt like that, despite many similarities, we are the diametric opposite of each other.<\/p>\n

This was the time when I got interested in fundamental differences regarding how people think and feel about the world and themselves. I started out by trying to better understand myself: somehow I had a hunch that this conflict has to do\u00a0something\u00a0<\/em>with personality types. I filled out countless personality tests, read tens \u2014 maybe hundreds \u2014 of articles on different methods for dividing people into personality types, on how these can (or cannot) predict future behavior and so on. Finally I settled with the\u00a0Myers Briggs Type Indicator<\/a>, largely thanks to a\u00a0fantastic website<\/a>\u00a0promoting the idea (full disclosure: I have no connection whatsoever to the creators and owners of that site and their personality test is free to use).<\/p>\n

There were other factors at play, of course, like how differentiated the given personality descriptions are, but the fact that convinced me (and your mileage might greatly vary here) is the system\u2019s ability to predict a certain type\u2019s behavior in new situations, and the vast amount of additional information it revealed beyond the answers given by the participant in the questionnaire.<\/p>\n

Figuring out my type (and guessing my colleague\u2019s type with whom I could not work with) has led to one of the biggest revelations of my lifetime. I can still remember the moment. It was a cold but sunny winter day. As I was walking around a building in the campus pondering the issue I had a sudden epiphany. It was like a lighting strike.<\/p>\n

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We Underappreciate How Different We Are Photo by\u00a0Joshua Fuller\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash After I started working for my current employer, I met a colleague with whom I simply could not work with. We disagreed on almost everything \u2014 not on a factual level, but rather on how we approach working with problems and identify solutions. I felt like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[3212,67,33745,33744,33743,658,32578],"class_list":["post-65098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-belief-system","tag-beliefs","tag-human-psychology","tag-personality","tag-personality-traits","tag-psychology","tag-the-honest-sorcerer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65099,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65098\/revisions\/65099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}