The Relater
Sounds like a good movie title, huh? The Interpreter, "Terminater"… hehe 
This is no movie review. I haven’t watched anything really nice on TV lately except "Friends," every weeknights at 11 p.m. How I look forward to that 30 minutes of the day! Going back to what I’m supposed to say, during a chat conference with my good old college friends, Clara, my online kitchen support, said she just had this personality test that involves 4 quadrants. It did sound pretty interesting so I checked it out in the Internet.
This dates back to 1999 so you must have heard or even taken this test too. In case you haven’t, you don’t have to answer the questions to know which quadrant you belong to. You can just read through this article and you’ll find out.
Time for a little introspection… check this out:
Here’s the link to the article: http://www.fsonline.com/fsj/archive/060199cath.html
A part I copied from the site:
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Here’s a quick summary of some of the characteristics of each of the styles.
The thinker–On the good side, thinkers tend to be orderly, precise, conscientious, neat, trustworthy, and careful. On the negative side of the equation, they tend to be a bit fearful, dependent, defensive, traditional, restrained, and non-expressive.
The relater–On the good side, relaters tend to be loyal, attentive, patient, mellow, cooperative, pleasant. On the negative side, they tend to be indecisive, immobile, possessive, hesitant, and poor delegators.
The socializer–On the good side, socializers tend to be open and trusting, enthusiastic, compelling, optimistic, and charming. On the negative side, they tend to be overly emotional, gullible, superficial, highly talkative, imprecise, and unfocused.
The director–On the good side, directors tend to be leaders; they’re good at initiating and they’re competitive, powerful, assertive, confident. On the negative side, they tend to be impulsive, forceful, pushy, inattentive, demanding, and impatient.
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Among the four quadrants, I think I can relate to the description of "The Relater" the most, especially on things that irritates a relater. Relaters are pleasant, cooperative, mellow, loyal… yes, I am too kind, to a fault. haha… kidding. That’s something nice to say on job interviews though - along with other lines like "my weakness is that I can be so committed to my job that I forget about my personal life."
As for the weakness: indecisive (hehehe.. sometimes), immobile (I don’t think so, maybe seldom hehe :), possessive (I don’t think so), hesitant (hehehe), and poor delegators (yes, I want all the work! haha… sometimes.)
Hi to my friend Sheila (Shiirasan! , who said she was suprised that I now have a blog because I am supposed to be very busy. Hahaha
