It's 9AM
There’s no such thing as a Type E personality.
The parents at the ball field lined up.
Four of them.
One of me.
We were talking about personality types, and I said I needed a type E in my life.
They were convinced I was wrong.
That I made a mistake or misspoke.
They assured me there was no such thing as a type E personality.
But instead of just shaking it off so I could get on with the reason behind why I said it, they kept going.
Five minutes of my life, wasted because they would rather be right than get the point.
Which makes me wonder about a lot of people.
How many times in your life is it a priority for the people you are talking to to be right?
For me, I don’t care if I’ve got the details half the time. I’m a big picture guy. An idea man.
Details can be boring as shit.
Which is what I was trying to explain to them.
I know my weaknesses and where I need help.
I also have studied myself enough to know where I am strong.
I try to spend very little time on where I am weak, and most of my time doing what is a strength.
I delegate the weakness to people who are strong at it when I can.
Like details and organization.
I have been writing for years. Decades. I have boxes of typed documents that I had to print up before the tech become obsolete. (floppy discs, dot matrix, even my very first word processor that used 2 inch hard discs.)
I have a few hundred notebooks scrawled and scribbled and noted with stories, story ideas, business ideas and lists.
I am an idea man because I have spent years practicing coming up with ideas.
For business. For stories. For politics. For life and liberty and making things better.
The practice includes an entire BATMAN novel I wrote when I was in college, before fan fiction was a big thing.
I found it a few weeks ago, tried to decipher some of the scrawl and wondered if I should dust it off, change the names and some of the details to publish as a new story.
I have a few fantasy novels resting beside it, inspired by dragonlance, and a Stephen King rip off about a kid dealing with characters from novels come to life.
A type E personality could get into those files, organize them, dictate them into an AI and line them up for work and publication.
They could help me with filing so I didn’t have to search too long, and help develop a schedule for editing, cover design, audio and the other steps for publication.
But as I was recently told, Type E’s don’t exist.
They are not librarians and people who like to organize by size or color or have systems in place so they don’t miss things.
I can’t recall which test it was that I remember this from. ENTJ, IFTJ, Briggs Meyer, Clifton Strengths.
Hell, all the tests seem like they were created by Type E’s to categorize people so they know how to deal with them and where to put them in order.
Here’s what I know about me.
I came up with an idea this week for a Made Up Baseball League, including team names, mascots, how to find the rosters, and logo designs.
Wrote it all down, including how and where to launch, plus a few explore more steps with it.
I then lined up a few ideas to fund it, seed funding for the early stages.
Why?
Because I heard about the Rocket City Trash Pandas and the somewhere Sod Poodles, real minor league teams that I want to go watch and will get tee shirts to support!
A type E assistant could help me organize it all, could prioritize where it goes in my schedule, and how much energy should go into it.
Same with a dozen other projects. Like the one I’m working on an hour or so at a time. The Brobot 5000 project.
If you have a slight interest in AI and where it’s going in the next five years, you can check out PHALANX on the BROBOT 5000 Project.
I’ll add to it each week, and have some original stories planned to go into it.
Next up is the writing.
Remember those files I talked about earlier?
I found an older story that would fit right in with Brill Wingfield’s Shadowboxer Files, so a new story called NAMELESS is coming out soon.
(Dictation is a first draft’s best friend.)
In addition, I’ve got the ongoing stuff I’m trying to get done, plus working on Les’ MBA (helping write her papers), and regular Baseball season, yard work, house work, investing, research, reading, running and planning.
Yikes!
All coming soon, as fast as my personality can make it happen.
What about you? What’s your strength?
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I could talk about A PINT OF PROBLEMS and A FIFTH OF TROUBLE.
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There’s a kind of magic in it, if you think about it.
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