This does explain a lot
Some years ago, I was sitting in a Myers-Briggs personality type class. We’d done our personality type profile and were discussing the types. So much became clear. I turned to the HR director sitting next to me and said “well, it’s perfectly obvious to me now why I feel I am in the wrong job”. And a lot more than my uneasiness with my job became clear – my whole life became more clear. I ran home to Dan that night and busted in as he was attempting to shower in peace. I started going on and on about how what I’d learned that day, what it meant about me and how much it explains. He opened the shower door, and said “and I really needed to know this right now?” My preference was yes, that he did. When he took the profile, I understood the poor guy just wanted to clean off the grime of the day, both literally and figuratively. That shower let him decompress and gain the energy needed for the rest of the day. Lesson #1 –he’s an introvert, meaning that he gets his energy from within; the extrovert in me meant that I gather energy from those around me. Unfortunately in this case, the introvert in the shower lives with the extrovert who barges in unlocked doors.
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