Different People, Different Needs...
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As you noticed in part 2, in the DISC model, every adjacent behavioral type shares some common traits; however, each opposing behavioral style do not share common traits and therefore those two are the most "foreign" to each other.
- the Ds and the Is are both active and fast paced
- the Is and Ss are both people oriented and accepting in nature
- the Ss and Cs are both cautious and moderate paced, and
- the Cs and Ds are both task oriented and questioning (they tend to be far less accepting then the I's and S's, therefore they at times come across as nit-picky and distrusting)
However, the D and S types have nothing in common; nor do the I and the C types.
How can this information help us in our day-to-day communication with those around us?
First of all, it should be comforting to see that we do have much in common with most people around us, and if we take a little time and effort to identify those commonalties we can build better relationships.
And secondly, and most importantly, this pinpoints a "blind spot." We do not have anything in common with the opposing behavioral types (D and S; I and C). This is the reason why at times we meet people that we don't click with right from the beginning and we just never seem to get this/these people. (this is not to imply that all difficult people in your life are the opposite of your behavioral type - anyone around us can make us miserable if they adopt a skewed attitude).
High D types tend to get annoyed by...
