Peter

PS- Kim, your description of the gym trip as physical curative describes me exactly

The Meyers-Briggs test says that I am boderline extravert/intravert, but over the years I would say I have slid more toward extravert. I am mad to see people. I can feel sickly emotionally and physically and become better just by walking into the crowded gym. The familiar faces saying “where have you been?” make me happy

We have both just taken “strength finder II” (owned by Gallop, it is the personality assessment) and it shed all kinds of light on some of our daily piccadillos and differneces.. Have you taken it? I ordered it for my friend’s birthday (amaon) and an executive coach came and facilitated a dinner party meeting about the test rsults. We had so much fun. I wonder what you and India’s strengths are? I was surprised to learn that “competititiveness” was not in my top 5. However, WOO (winning others over, #1) and Input are my top two. So John now understands why I want NPR on at all times and I read the crawl on CNN while I listen to the news (often confusing 2 stories) John’s top two are Adaptability and Positivity, which further explains out commitment to frequent entertaining (even to our own detriment). JOhn’s includer means that he asks everyone that he sees that day over to the house for dinner.

Kim
WOO
Input
Positivity
Communicator
Ideation

John
Adaptability
posiivity
Ideation
Includer
We cannot remember John’s other strength and but he quips that he is the “solvenator” and the “wanderer” (we’ve been calling him the wanderer for years). I feel certain that John’s other 2 strengths had something to do with not wanting responsibility. no offense john. somehow Kim Massey and Gallop made it seem like they were strengths, whatever they were called.

India’s persuasion as an introvert is interesting. Being an introvert is probably what I would’ve guessed today, but I will tell you, I’ve had to have a professor at Vanderbilt explain the real meaning of the word - I never really understood the feelings of an introvert until lately. I don’t remember much about the lunch room except for getting into trouble and being forced to sit with Bryan Ellis and Alan Somebody. It ended up being the most fun. I can remember what India had for lunch everyday. I can remember the day she got glasses. And I remember her descriptive sentence in the forth grade as awarded the best. As much as it is hard to really understand the introvert, I usually perfer them as my audience and dear friends, of course.