care bears share

tuesday is my favourite day of the week. not for the cheaper pizza (which i've just ordered) and not because heroes comes out (which i'll watch sans pizza). its the day i make a difference

but first a slice of psych

if you give a hoot about personality profiling im an INTJ or Mastermind if you follow Keirsey (who doesn't?). We account for less then 1% of the world's population and do not feel bound by established rules and procedures, traditional authority does not impress us, nor do slogans or catchwords. As such, challenging the status quo is my status quo, if you try to manage me with authority we'll end up discussing your shortcomings and catchwords or slogans translate to "distractionfrommyproductandorservicenotspeakingforitself". We tend to come across as uncaring due to our biting sarcasm (im sure you knew this already dumbass) and natural tendency to distance ourselves from people (it helps to take in all your flaws and pass judgment with a wide angle lens). most importantly, we like to hang out in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead.

after watching management promote turnips who were intent on damaging everything in their path, i decided to take an active role in succession planning and gather together a group of induhviduals that were capable of wiping their own asses and hadn't been damaged beyond repair. At the time this was an opportunity to build my very own clone army that would take down the existing inefficient manager population and eventually thrust me into a high-level position that would require minimal effort for maximum pay. a solid plan.

i had what i wanted, an audience who were appreciating a bullshit free environment and were attentive to everything i could imprint on them. as i downloaded my agenda in weekly installments, something unprecedented happened.

they were displaying independant thought. my direction was evident, but the ideas were their own. i was able to witness what accountability and ownership looked like in others for the first time. i realized two important things:

• these people are rare and must be supported at all costs.
• the inner care-bear inside me had awoken at the sound of competence.

im finding myself wanting to spend more and time with these people. i followup with them individually to see how they are tracking and when they come to me for advice or to let me know how they went with some advice im all ears. im going out of my way for people and it's not part of the plan. sarcasm has been replaced by obi-wan like wisdom, i'm sharing flaws and im enjoying it.

27 years later im learning to give a rats. go me.