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View Poll Results: What's your woodworking style? Read definitions first!

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  • Driving

    7 11.48%
  • Expressive

    16 26.23%
  • Amiable

    19 31.15%
  • Analytical

    12 19.67%
  • Rat's Ring

    7 11.48%
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  1. #1
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    Default What's your WW style? Read the definitions first!

    Reading some recent threads and analyzing the responses got me to thinking about how our personality styles affect our approach to WWing and often the responses we make to queries. I have been teaching courses in this for 25 years but never thought of it in WW terms before. So . . .

    What's your style?

    Driving: Work to a plan (yours or someone else's), make decisions quickly, push on thru stuff-ups, be in control of your project, results-oriented, not easily distracted.

    Expressive: Visionary, results-oriented, hate details, impatient, creative, frustrated at stuff-ups, easily-distracted.

    Amiable: Enjoy the process as much as the result, persistent, enjoy working with mates, accept stuff-ups and keep going, relaxed approach to WW.

    Analytical: Careful planner, great attention to detail, stops to examine progress often, perfectionist, finds stuff-ups unacceptable and often starts over if necessary.
    Cheers,

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    What motivated this, in part, was the realisation that I was getting good advice but wasn't always willing to take it (nothing new there, of course).

    I am a raging Expressive, so attention to detail is one of my worst traits and accounts for many of my stuff-ups. When advised to plan more carefuly, I would set out to do so but soon find myself impatient to get on with it.

    I have many of the regulars on this board pegged pretty well, but I wondered if you recognized your own stylistic approach to projects.
    Cheers,

    Bob



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    Hmm, I'd say I was Amiable, but there are times when I swing into Expressive as well

    cheers
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    Enjoy the process but just do it & talk about it later.
    A bit of all of them.
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    I am undoubtedly a combination of all four - what would be called a Chameleon in the psych tool I work on - but in which I am a Promoter (read opinionated loud mouth).

    I'm results-oriented but love the details; I hate stuff ups but push on through them; I'm impatient but stop to examine progress often. It would be easier to say what I'm not and so, by process of elimination, I declare myself Expressive according to your scale, but I really think Half-arsed would be more apt.

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    Also prone to exaggeration.
    Cliff.
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    I've told you a thousand times not to say that!

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    I would class myself as analytical but drift into all other areas which is how the results of a similar thing I did when I was with BHP in a program called the Versatile Sales Person.

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    Expressive: Visionary, results-oriented, hate details, impatient, creative, frustrated at stuff-ups, easily-distracted.


    That's me to a "T" I've never followed a plan, in fact most things don't have a plan, just make it up as I go along. Correct the stuff ups as I go and often run out of patients and never finish some of the things I start.

    If it goes against the grain, it's being rubbed the wrong way!

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    Where's the category "Slow, mistake ridden" &"Start many, finish few"?
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    There you go Brian, that's me to a T. I do manage to finish most things though, I guess I'm willing to tolerate my own failures as long as I'm having fun.





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    I'm another definite Amiable Expressive. Maybe.
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

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    Analytical: (aka anal)
    Careful planner - sometimes to no avail
    great attention to detail - yep, the devil's in the detail
    stops to examine progress often - sometimes it's indiscernible, sometimes I find stuffups instead
    perfectionist, finds stuff-ups unacceptable and often starts over if necessary - yep, been known to run a completed box through the bandsaw cause it wasn't up to standard.
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    Im a mix of RAGING manic expressive and what the wizend fella said!

    Its also a passion so all of it including the major stuffups are really enjoyable
    Believe me there IS life beyond marriage!!! Relax breathe and smile learn to laugh again from the heart so it reaches the eyes!!


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    Maybe someone can tell me?

    Driving: Work to a plan (yours or someone else's) sometimes, make decisions quickly sometimes, push on thru stuff-ups sometimes, be in control of your project yes, results-oriented not really, not easily distracted no.

    Expressive: Visionary sometimes, results-oriented not really, hate details not really, impatient, creative sometimes, frustrated at stuff-ups sometimes, easily-distracted yes.

    Amiable: Enjoy the process as much as the result yes, persistent ,yes enjoy working with mates sometimes, accept stuff-ups and keep going sometimes, relaxed approach to WW yes .

    Analytical: Careful planner sometimes, great attention to detail sometimes, stops to examine progress often yes, perfectionist not really, finds stuff-ups unacceptable and often starts over if necessary sometimes.

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