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#1 ·
Here it is. Come one, come all!




Post all your random thoughts. Especially certain ENFP thread derailers. You know who you are. :cool:



Posting this has wiped me out. Whew, Im gonna go take a cat nap now.
 
#1,499 ·
@Monkey King,
Did you find any of that helpful?
Any positive take away from it?
 
#1,500 ·
@Monkey King,
Did you find any of that helpful?
Any positive take away from it?
LOL

only that if you don't want to be picked on for the next few hours, don't be a smartass.

I left my play dough alone and said, " It is what it is."

Every scenario/group exercise/sharing experience thing was directed at me first. "So MK, what do you think?" " So MK, why don't you take the lead on this activity."
 
#1,501 ·
Wel emotional inteligence its extremely useful and have huge and many aplications BUT those seminars and balbablabla talks does not show how to translate theory into actions/objectives/practise. I read goleman book but the second part: emotional inteligence in the company(factory)this is the literal translation not sure if this how is called in english maybe can help you 2eng.
 
#1,502 ·
Thanks I agree. I recently took a "how to deal with problematic employees" class (mandatory for all department heads to attend). Funny thing is the info I got out of that class was exactly, and I mean to a T, what pleasantly has told me for quite some time now. I was shocked really... so, whenever I need advice on work or employees I greatly appreciate her input. I'm kind of expecting the same from this one too.
 
#1,503 ·
I did actually have one pretty cool game/exercise I want to share.

We played a card game. Silently. No talking allowed. Prizes for winners.

About 7 tables with 8 people at each. After a couple rounds ended and some players lost their cards, they had to go to the next table. The thing was, every table had slightly different rules. So basically every time people switched tables, there would be a silent disagreement on the rules. It was a card grabbing kind of game so submissive people would just let people take their cards and the overly competitive wouldn't even think twice because prizes were involved.

Eventually there was a clusterfuck of rules and the game was unplayable, but the one person with too much Te and not enough brains would try to enforce only his version of the game, not comprehending why everyone around the table was trying to silently communicate to him that everybody's rules were different and just kept grabbing cards. Then, the truth was revealed, they felt dumb, and nobody talked to them for the remainder of the day lol.

Winner was the table that managed to create a playable game by someone teaching the rules when new players were introduced.
 
#1,507 · (Edited)
The training I was on was a 3 part series: Cultural competency, conflict management, and team building.

I liked the team building class much more than the other two where it felt like a group therapy session. The activity for team building was to create a tower that was 4ft tall with misc limited items that were given to us. I think there were 7 construction paper, a paper towel tube, 1 poster paper, some paper clips, 5 tennis balls and some other smaller items. After construction the tower must withstand 5 waves of a paper fan.

The group was separated into 8 groups. The instructor was the 'Boss' or 'Authority' whatever he said we had to do. We had 30 min to organize, plan, and build. The first 5 mintues was us organizing the team but we could not speak. Anyone who spoke, were to be silenced for the rest of the time or when told by the Boss that he/she could speak again. So we followed direction; we spread out our materials out to see what we have. We did weird signs with our hands what the structure will look. 5 minutes went and I started talking. I began to tell some dude to start cutting up the tennis balls making one side flat. BAM the instructor said, " MK SHUTTUP, you're out."

Dude. I was so confused, I asked why? And he ignored me so, I just chilled out wondering what I did wrong. 10 min pass, my team still got something looking like a rocket that won't stand upright. I couldn't deal with it so I went in and started helping out. We needed 3 legs and it could be achieved with the tennis balls, using pipe strings to achieve height but we have to put all the sturdier stuff at the bottom. BOOM we got something. But we were off by a foot. I told some guy to find us another and trade them something of ours that we don't need. So he went off, got a few materials.

Then the rest of the other teams started working together. My team was discussing how the tower will stand but it won't survive the fan. So we got together with the other teams, shared resources and made 3 towers made up of our combined resources.

After that, the instructor was so surprised. He said that the activity was designed so that none of the teams would be able to make a passable tower. The point was the communication b/w the teams. We were the first class who had done what the activity had intended to do AND actually finish the objective. He also didn't think the teams would start trading/combining resources.

It was a very interesting activity especially since, something new occurred in his training. What caught my interest also, is when he told all those that he told to shut up in the beginning was on purpose. He was trying to illustrate that authority should not dictate what you have to do to finish the job. He emphasized that although rules and orders were good, sometimes the results and doing the job trumps that it. He silenced all of the individuals he felt were the leaders of the group and was disappointed that most followed direction. Learned something from that one, but happy that I didn't remain quite for the rest of the activity. LOL
 
#1,509 ·
Getting over some people/situations sometimes is fricking hard. I've no idea how I managed to do it with ridiculous ease in the past. But I need that me back. At least I need it back fast enough before I figure out how to balance dating twins.
 
#1,511 ·
@bionic

The next time I come to your city, we are going out and light something on fire. I mean that figuratively, but if you go for the literal, I'll bring the fire extinguisher.
 
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#1,516 ·
dafuq?
 
#1,520 ·
I want to be a Spartan woman. It sounds like a life of luxury to be manager of my own estate, have my "husband" constantly away from home as he is secretly gay, and still being an educated woman who is expected to train like the Spartan warriors do. Hell, and nudity is welcome as well. It sounds so awesome. Also, most of the women didn't get married off until like 18 and could choose a mate - which is even cooler.
 
#1,529 ·
A good friend of mine is an ENTJ.
He's very concise, verbally fresh, and loves debates.
He's a classic NT and I could listen to him talk for hours. I mean... He's that stereotypical intellect you see in a movie. I don't understand how he's so humble.

Just here to show you ENTJs appreciation. Oh yeh.
 
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#1,530 ·
Random.

So I had a custom cake order for a man's 30th birthday...he specifically directed his Wife to order it per the following: bottom tier animals and animal print to represent his childhood, middle tier sports and Ohio State to represent his college years, money as the top tier for adulthood and stability, and on the very top, a baby as that is their next goal.

Do you think this was an odd request? Creative? Both? Neither?

Here it is when I was finishing it up (better lighting):



Here it is on location and all put together:

 
#1,533 ·
Random.

So I had a custom cake order for a man's 30th birthday...he specifically directed his Wife to order it per the following: bottom tier animals and animal print to represent his childhood, middle tier sports and Ohio State to represent his college years, money as the top tier for adulthood and stability, and on the very top, a baby as that is their next goal.

Do you think this was an odd request? Creative? Both? Neither?
Definitely both. The baby on top is a bit intense. :p

Very good-looking cake, though. I'd like to have an animals cake like that. Now I just get grown-up cakes with fruits and shit...
 
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#1,537 ·
Finally completely mentally moved on from on-again-off-again INTP ex, even though it's been over for nearly 3 months since the final break. For some reason, I was attached to him for so long (around 1.5 years), despite not ever being in love with him and knowing that. Maybe it's because he was my first (guess I am too much of a romantic) and the closest I've ever come to really genuinely liking someone, in the beginning at least.

He turned me weak and indecisive. But I'm finally myself again. Good day, PerC.
 
#1,543 ·
Being fairly new in my position, it felt good to give a member of my team a raise. I am rewarding those that deserve it, and slowly weeding out the dead weight and replacing them with qualified competent people.
 
#1,553 ·
My ESFJ friend finally won an argument over me because I forgot what my point was and couldn't continue debating. He was overjoyed, and kept saying he got 1 point now. I asked 0-1 to you? He didn't understand what I meant because I supposedly had too many points that could be counted when it came down to winning arguments. Reason why he won: I was high. I let him have it this once, seeing how happy he was. Never thought he would admit that I had won every pervious arguments with him.

I should make the world a better place, just by walking around losing arguments.
 
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