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Green and Blue Personality Types on YouTube

Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Three Greens and One Blue on YouTube

How You Can Figure Out Colors Without a Survey
 

Greens and Blues have one thing in common. They live in their heads. Processing ideas is THEM. The Greens, however, are the “Thinkers” while the Blues are the “Feelers” – in Myers-Briggs terminology.

How to tell them apart can be found in their body language and speech.

Click on the YouTube link below and watch our current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the only Blue, speaking on Meet the Press at the same table as three Greens: Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton, and the moderator David Gregory. 

Here is a summary of what to look for:

GREENS:  Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton, and Meet the Press Moderator David Gregory

·         Drawing starkly clear pictures with hands – pointing, chopping, framing

·         Matter-of-fact delivery

·         Well referenced big-picture orientations

·         Referencing knowledgeable sources, leaders

·         Breaking answers into categories and examples

BLUE:  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

·         Soft, open-handed ( imploring) gestures with hands, very little jerking or chopping

·         Pleasant, smiling, soft delivery

·         Idealistic big picture

·         Referencing universal people and their interactions

·         Speaking in sweeping rather than finely-drawn scenarios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yANobP-60yo

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Is There Hope for Tiger Woods’ Marriage?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Tiger Woods could end up being a champion family man, if he acts as smartly now as he does on the golf course.

 

A lot of people celebrating 50th wedding anniversaries have survived a few affairs.

 

Looking back over my life, I have to wonder if nature is the natural enemy of wedding vows. After all, we are all biologically programmed to have sex with just about anybody at any time – as programmed as we are to have to eat when we are hungry.

 

And we are also emotionally programmed to feel resentment and jealousy when our partner strays – even when a relationship is new and a long way from marriage commitments.

 

We are intellectually programmed to try to resolve conflicts, yet this programming appears to be weaker than the other two – and will lose out to amphibian lust and violence.

 

That’s why I think we need to go for help when our previous relationships and our families are threatened by sex outside the marriage. I think couples need help to the same degree that alcoholics need AA.

 

It doesn’t help when one partner insists outside sex is “no threat” to the primary relationship. And it also doesn’t help when the wounded partner hides behind the legality of the marriage vows – as if the sinner stole money from bank with a gun.

 

In a nutshell, if both parties find that the core relationship is worthwhile and worth saving, then a process of rebuilding is in order. Think about it. Nations murder millions of people in neighboring nations but, only a few years after such nightmarish encounters, end up as the best of allies. Teenage children inflict unpardonable havoc on themselves and their families, yet parents protect and help them out of love and commitment.

 

You will note that I have not used the word forgiveness even once. That’s because two people will rarely give the same definition of the word, depending on circumstances. What I am advocating, however, is the use of our natural intellects to resolve conflict, to get the help of experienced smart people, and to build great families that can withstand all of the storms that life will bring them.

 

Tiger Woods is no amphibian. His wife and children are not little lizards. I’m hoping for the best for all of them.

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Diablo Cody

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Boy, is there ever a book for you to read. Pay attention, Orange people – something for YOU. Just finished reading Diablo Cody’s book Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper.  You may already know her as the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno.

She’s the ultimate extraverted Orange-Green personality. She’s got a top-notch foreign journalist’s Orange daring, backed up by the laser-perfect vocabulary skills of the Green.

 

As Jane Fonda is the poster child of an introverted Blue-Gold, so Cody is the extraverted Orange-Green. (Just imagine these two playing each other in biopics.) You have all got to enjoy this book. Fifty years ago, it would have surprised if not completely horrified most people. Heck, some people today will be surprised. The beauty of this biography is the stark non-judgmental journalism about her own life, the people she cares about, the sex industry – both the vendors and the customers – and drugs and alcohol. Such freedom. Such magnificent freedom. God bless the true Oranges who are true to themselves. The Greens among you will love her lexicon – and the complete utilitarian nature of her adventures. Blues may totally identify with husband Jonny, and get off on the author’s imagery. Golds– gawd, I wish there were more of you on this site – I’d pay money to hear what you think. And Oranges – well, just pump up your chests in pride.

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As Eunice Shriver leaves us, reflect on Sargent Shriver

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

With the passing of Eunice Shriver, I’d like to comment on her Blue husband Sargent. He is still alive, by the way, but deep into Altzheimers.

 

Sargent Shriver is a super role-model for extraverted Blue-Orange folks. He did what most Blue people would find extremely difficult to emulate – be successful a la Donald Trump in the financial world. He singlehandedly doubled the financial empire of Joe Kennedy in Chicago then, amidst the Green and Orange uber-aura of the Kennedy family and administration, he jumped in to be the Green and Gold expert behind major choices in the Kennedy cabinet. The founding of the Peace Corps was entirely his doing – from the initial idea to painstakingly and patiently walking the corridors of Congress to get the bill passed.

 

One thing I have learned about all this temperament stuff is that one’s “core temperament” need not impede us from greatness – especially when we are willing to be Renaissance People with all of the learning, experience, courage, and discipline that that requires.

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Sonia Sotomayor is Gold-Green?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Watching Sonia Sotomayor this week — even through the curtain of a traditional Senate hearing — I believe we were witnessing a Gold-Green at the peak of healthy Goldness. The first clue seemed to be the verbal slow pace, extreme comfort with processing and re-processing all ideas regardless of their importance or inanity. She seemed to be firmly in control of the room, the camera, and even the outcome by being very well prepared and practiced. Being called a bully in the workplace might be translated more kindly as being a real boss — demanding respect, completed work, total focus, i.e., she has little or no tolerance for lack of discipline and probably does not welcome lightheartedness unless it is well deserved or she engages in it herself. I had wondered if she might be Green early on, but her long legal track record does not appear to reflect a Green’s ongoing inventiveness or desire to make differences.

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