INTJ'in up in here...
I took a test that told me what I already suspected: Hannibal Lecter & I have the same personality type.
It's not so bad though since Lance Armstrong, General Colin Powell, Chevy Chase, and C.S. Lewis all were INTJ's.
— Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Judging —
This recent reoccurring thought may play into this INTJ personality type somehow: I've been thinking about being Active-Aggressive.
I'm surrounded by Passive-Aggressiveness all day because the constant stress of working with the public can lead one to bottle up and act out in little ways or wait 6 months and suddenly come unglued on your co-worker who "YOU MOVED THAT PARTS TICKET ON PURPOSE LAST MAY AND NOW IVE HAD IT WITH YOU, LET'S RUMBLE." I'm ushering in a whole new way of thinking and I'm not only a client, I'm the flappin president of this new way.
Here's the gist of being an Active-Aggressive: Someone pees in your cornflakes, correct it then and there without worry of the consequences (surely there will be consequences, you just should never ever never take time to consider them).
- The guy who drank all the tea at Cook-Out and didn't bother to tell anyone behind the counter? Trip him as he passes your booth and watch him fall to the ground, his grubby tea hogging hands trying to decide between letting go of his tray of freshly purchased onion rings and protecting his face from skidding along the greasy floor—teeth digging up the mortar between the tiles and the tiles then shattering his pearly white maxillary central incisors his mom paid the orthodontist too much to straighten.
- The driver that knew his lane was going to end for the last 26 miles and didn't bother to merge until the last possible second when he swerved in front of you nearly missing your front bumper? Don't lift! If you lift, you may miss him and the opportunity to make him realize that decisions in life have consequences and his consequences are about to suck. hard. If you stay in the gas, you'll catch him just behind the back tire in the rear quarter or hopefully just the bumper. The great thing about this is that with his sideways momentum he's built up by caring zero for your life and his when he yanked the wheel to zip into your lane will work to your advantage. With his car moving sideways at high speed it will only take the slightest tap from your front bumper to spin him around and send him off into the woods where he'll sit and wait for a tow truck or hopefully an ambulance and contemplate how he'll drive differently once he recovers. Don't take my word for it, learn this move from police officers as they try to kill this guy. Look how gentle they tap the guy, just imagine if this driver was moving into your lane, he's doing 90% of the work for you!
- "You gone eat yo conebread?" WHACKUM. Right in the dang eye socket. Yes I'm going to eat my cornbread and you are going to sit there, finish crying, and watch me.
- "Hey how 'bout that football game last night...." Hey remember that time I never watched a football game and told you just yesterday how stupid that sport is? BAM. That's why I just punched you in the throat. I've known you ten years and we've had this conversation repeatedly, it's time I did something to help you remember not to ask me again.
Join with me in making December Active-Aggressive Awareness Month. Remember, it could be you who punches someone in the mouth today that makes them talk nicer to the next person. It's really just another way that you can Pay It Forward.
