SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS by Thomas Erikson

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@SmallBusinessFree-StylePodcast Ай бұрын

This is a very good overview of the DISC "Behavioral" styles. Note that this assessment is NOT a Personality profile but an assessment of observable behaviors. This is about How you respond/react to Problems & Challenges, People & Contacts, Pace & Consistency, and Procedures & Compliance.

@SeraphimLeo 2 ай бұрын

This seems like astrology for armchair psychologists. The idea that personality is static to this extent is controversial in itself. And it fails to take into account so many other factors such as personal vs private life. Most everyone I've met thinks of me as an extravert since I'm bubbly and open in conversation, yet in my private life I know I'm very introverted and prefer to avoid social interaction. This book might be useful to get housewives to stop bickering amongst one and other, but the reality of personality and interpersonal dynamics is way more complex.

@amaze-on07 2 ай бұрын

LoL true

@AnantSachdeva92 2 ай бұрын

You would never get anywhere until you are able to understand each of these trait individually. Maybe it would help you to meet with an extreme example of each trait. You could understand so much once you accept being a product of your choices and personality is as fluid as changing clothes. You ego keeps you pinned to your idea. And about being a complex personality (very socially acceptable way to say i don't want to face my inner demons). I don't buy it. Being the product of all you are, you would choose one of the two options and that makes you, you. And either of 4 color would always have one single output trait = Personality type.

@afsalkhan4423 Ай бұрын

You should probably a primary blue

@SeraphimLeo Ай бұрын

@@AnantSachdeva92 I agree that individual personality traits exist, that's not the point. The point is that there is no system to properly interpret these traits and fit them into a single profile, compounded by the fact that people often exhibit contradictory traits depending on the circumstances. Imagine a female CEO who is assertive on her job yet stuck in an abusive relationship with her husband. Is this a dominant red or a submissive green personality? Or a savant who can recite Pi up to 200 numbers yet can't remember to put on clean clothes every morning. Is this a detail oriented blue personality or just a sloppy green introvert?

@SeraphimLeo Ай бұрын

@@afsalkhan4423 That's called setting up a self fulfilling prophecy. When one of the dogmas of the system is that anyone who uses logic to critique the system itself must be a blue then valid criticism of the system becomes false confirmation that the system works. This is exactly how astrology works btw. You're just confirming my critique.

@Pegamax 2 ай бұрын

The 4 temperaments of Hippocrates or even older Ezekiel... nothing is created, everything is transformed...

@harishankarparthipan-ol3ly 2 ай бұрын

Awesome 👍

@SeraphimLeo 2 ай бұрын

It was pseudoscience then and it's pseudoscience now. The complexities of personality and social dynamics can't be summed up in 4 colours.

@sihr07 Ай бұрын

🙄🙄🙄 no one said this author created this theory….

@orfeas8 Ай бұрын

Seems like a very very useful book. I like your summary here. Thanks

@xyJleTaM Ай бұрын

You've gotten really good with this stuff. Massive respect and many thanks!

@d.m.uu.8776 Ай бұрын

love it, thank you for introducing this book to us 😊 the adidas design teams in Germany are like this, one is create has mostly a crazy hair colours, one is the grey mouse and very focused, one is the strong decision maker an leader and the last one is a friendly person the keep the full team together 😊

@tar-yy3ub Ай бұрын

Any book that divides people into a bunch of categories is bollocks. Real psychologists and actual personality researchers know this.

@d.m.uu.8776 Ай бұрын

Absolutely, people’s reactions can vary greatly from day to day, influenced by their current emotions and experiences, as well as what lies ahead. The complexity of human behavior cannot be fully captured by just four broad categories; a more nuanced approach would offer deeper insights. Additionally, the book appears to be researched and written from a Western perspective, potentially overlooking a more global viewpoint.

@SeraphimLeo Ай бұрын

Yes, and the field of psychology is itself overly simplistic and overly dogmatic in its assessments and regularly fails to account for the sheer unimaginable complexity of the human brain, as recent studies on the effects (and lack thereof) of SSRIs have shown. So the fact that even psychologists consider this tripe says a lot.

@skanderabdellaoui 2 күн бұрын

@@d.m.uu.8776 I sincerely like your comment and it is 100% true and what I liked the most is this one “POTENTIALLY OVERLOOKING A MORE GLOBAL VIEWPOINT.” BUT (sorry there is always a “but”, but don’t worry it is not a “but” that is opposite to what you’ve said it is only a supplement :-)), we are condemned to use the scientific method and categorize in order to highlight the attributes of a particular category. The goal is to capture one aspect of reality not the entire reality (this is called ABSTRACTION). So the categories are models just models not to confuse with the real persons. Models don’t exist in real life. In his book “Mastery”, George Leonard (not mastery of Robert Green) divided the learner in three categories: the dabbler, the obsessive, and the hacker. Does he really consider that there are three types and only three type of people trying to learn something ? Of course not, he was just trying to bring our attention to the fact that the attributes in these 3 models may be an obstacle for learning. His goal is to convince us to avoid these attributes while trying to master something. So indeed if we “change” our behavior, we can avoid “being” a dabbler, an obsessive, or a hacker. This is an excerpt from the chapter on “the dabbler, the obsessive, and the hacker”: “The categories are obviously not quite this neat. You can be a Dabbler in love and a master in art. You can be on the path of mastery on your job and a Hacker on the golf course and vice versa…These characters, then, have proven useful in help- ing us see why we're not on the path of mastery. But the real point is to get on that path and start moving.”. Carl Jung also used categories to illustrate his points about consciousness, the unconscious, the shadow, the archetypes… but Yes to not confuse with the real self which is more complex. And @tar-yy3ub you are are right about saying what you said, we must be aware and don’t forget that these are only models to help us understanding and don’t capture reality in any way !

@MatthewEaton 2 ай бұрын

Or you could refer to the DISC system that pretty much covers this without colors. I get that people learn differently, but this is sort of reinventing the wheel that already exists.

@AberrantArt 2 ай бұрын

Can you explain the DISC system? I've heard of it before but this is the only personality categorization im familiar with.

@RadekPilich 2 ай бұрын

yes, it's just rehashed DiSC

@MatthewEaton Ай бұрын

@@AberrantArt You pretty much got it from this video. D is Red, I is Yellow, S is Green, C is Blue. All of the personality traits and reactions are the same as DISC

@broncobilly4029 Ай бұрын

Thanks. I went through a leadership training course a few years ago that was very similar. It may have been the same source. Anyway, good reminders in this book to better understand someone, you should look at things from the other person's perspective.

@enfisya 2 ай бұрын

nice summary 👏🏼

@rishiraj2548 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@SamirMishra6174 2 ай бұрын

Another great video

@STUDIO-ew8dz Ай бұрын

great book, great review, thanks!

@macharlaaswin9102 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@alaskaaesthetics Ай бұрын

Reading a book in 9 minutes is the best

@haifisher 2 ай бұрын

This is basically the persolog DISC model.

@sihr07 Ай бұрын

It is, the whole point is to bring new tools for understanding and taking advantage of these characteristics

@PennyTrayshun-dh2ft Ай бұрын

Exactly the same point previously pointed out by the others, that’s been grossly overlooked by this book. I appreciate the invitation to be more tolerant of peoples differences but suggesting ways on how to best approach each type assuming their predictability is fundamentally flawed. Nice presentation though. Sounds similar to the outdated Myers Briggs concept

@themoviecapo Ай бұрын

Another personality type book but this time with colours. So simple that even kindergarten can use /s

@cristiplopeanu 2 ай бұрын

this model looks highly-subjective from my self-introspection results over the years I think putting the mind in limited, well-defined categories is very dangerous, as a habit, due to its complexity and power of adaptation and learning. At least that's my opinion.

@SeraphimLeo 2 ай бұрын

Exactly, it's astrology for armchair psychologists.

@Yrona Ай бұрын

🤗thanks

@Klassenfeind Ай бұрын

DISC assessment. This shit has been known for decades.

@sihr07 Ай бұрын

🙄🙄🙄 it is, the whole point is to bring new tools on how to use it No need to be bitter 🤡🤡🤡

@Klassenfeind Ай бұрын

There is no need for new tools when the principle itself is already flawed. Or do you also believe in MBTI?

@Outerspacefunk Ай бұрын

Read the book not worth it. Just understand that you need to cut the chase when asking or reporting to someone.

@watchit387 Ай бұрын

Sounds like pseudo science bullshit

@harishankarparthipan-ol3ly 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful and very clearly put down, thanks 🙏

@lorenzomarquesini7136 2 ай бұрын

Hello Productivty Game. Thanks for the video

@FrankPloegman Ай бұрын

Excellent summary and thanks for bringing this book to my attention! I had already done the DISC test in 2015, but mostly forgot about it. This framework describes a lot of misunderstanding and criticisms that I have experienced in my own life.

@arupmullick3474 2 ай бұрын

Love This Book

@SonnyDarvishzadeh Ай бұрын

This book mentions 4 colors and every color has a perspective, positive and moving forward. How about me? I am white as a whiteboard. That lazy couch potato that keeps complaining about everything and everyone and does't have or care about a solution. I want to be included in this book too! 🤷🏻‍♂