Just adding time. It takes 5 minutes from getting up to leave till actually leaving the driveway. For example, I walk a couple hundred yards to my grandson’s to ride with him with his provisional license to bass lessons about 35 minutes away. I get to his place an hour before the lesson starts. I say high to the other grandkids, help load the double bass and music into his car. He drives cautiously, i.e. the speed limit or less. We usually get there 10 minutes before lesson starts. We sit there and continue our conversation till two minutes to 7. He can drive cautiously because we don’t need to rush because we are running late.
I use to speed and run on the adrenaline. I don’t want adrenaline when I drive these days. I get adrenaline when driving 90 miles home from visiting family and having to watch for white tail deer running across the road. Three trips in a row I had to brake to miss deer. The last one, a deer looked like it was going to run into my mirror, t-bone me. I flicked the steering wheel right, left, right throwing the rear end of the car onto the shoulder, and the deer missed me. I had thought of that scenario earlier in the drive. If it had not been preloaded into my brain and actively scanning for deer, I don’t think I would have processed it fast enough to miss him.
I overbook myself and then furiously try to complete the hottest items on time. It's a sloppy process, but it's the way I am wired. Messy desk and studio, but my priorities are clear, and I meet important deadlines.
To be honest, I overbook on my own initiatives, not for favors to family and friends or for clients. Unbridled optimism is a messy endeavor and I am never bored!
One of the oldest gags in animation is the depiction of a character's conscience as corresponding miniature angel and devil figures on the character's shoulders, each trying to persuade the other of the verity of their words. I parodied that concept in this story: https://davidperlmutter.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-to-waste
I'm right in the middle in contentiousness. I can be either pedantic or fly by the seat of my pants at the same time.
IMO the average is somewhere in the middle, but you and I can be pretty spiky.
I am a stickler on time, usually putting slop in the schedule in order to comfortably get somewhere on time, or before, without rushing to get there.
“Slop in the schedule” - tell me more! Is this a buffer of something less important?
Just adding time. It takes 5 minutes from getting up to leave till actually leaving the driveway. For example, I walk a couple hundred yards to my grandson’s to ride with him with his provisional license to bass lessons about 35 minutes away. I get to his place an hour before the lesson starts. I say high to the other grandkids, help load the double bass and music into his car. He drives cautiously, i.e. the speed limit or less. We usually get there 10 minutes before lesson starts. We sit there and continue our conversation till two minutes to 7. He can drive cautiously because we don’t need to rush because we are running late.
I use to speed and run on the adrenaline. I don’t want adrenaline when I drive these days. I get adrenaline when driving 90 miles home from visiting family and having to watch for white tail deer running across the road. Three trips in a row I had to brake to miss deer. The last one, a deer looked like it was going to run into my mirror, t-bone me. I flicked the steering wheel right, left, right throwing the rear end of the car onto the shoulder, and the deer missed me. I had thought of that scenario earlier in the drive. If it had not been preloaded into my brain and actively scanning for deer, I don’t think I would have processed it fast enough to miss him.
I overbook myself and then furiously try to complete the hottest items on time. It's a sloppy process, but it's the way I am wired. Messy desk and studio, but my priorities are clear, and I meet important deadlines.
Sounds like a mix, where conscientiousness is really important to you, but distractions get in the way. I think I understand.
I may have gotten better at saying no, but let’s see.
To be honest, I overbook on my own initiatives, not for favors to family and friends or for clients. Unbridled optimism is a messy endeavor and I am never bored!
I very much get this. I bite off a lot, but if I don't bite off so much, I go crazy for want of activity.
Have you read Olga Khazan's recent book "Me, But Better"? It's a deep dive into the Big Five and how they can be used to steer your personality in a new direction: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Me-But-Better-Science-Personality/dp/1668012545 Currently enjoying the audiobook version of it.
Nice! Not yet, but the framework is still pretty new to me. I like it and it has helped to learn these terms, though.
I’m gonna bookmark the audiobook, Mike!
One of the oldest gags in animation is the depiction of a character's conscience as corresponding miniature angel and devil figures on the character's shoulders, each trying to persuade the other of the verity of their words. I parodied that concept in this story: https://davidperlmutter.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-to-waste