2:00 AM, and only about 300 words. My three page paper is due in less than ten hours and I haven’t slept a wink. I have known what I want to say for some time, but without the pressure of a ticking clock the canvas remains blank. As the turn in deadline sneaks up, it looks as though I’ve made some progress; and just in the nick of time, I can whip up and turn in a masterpiece. I have found myself in just this scenario many times. Procrastination can be a bad thing for some people, but for pressure prompted individuals like myself, we enjoy the stress of meeting a deadline.
The exercises we did in class last Wednesday really made me realize what a diverse group we have. We all have different qualities, strengths, and personalities. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator gave us an in-depth description on our personality preferences. I found my report to be rather interesting—I have a very complex and dynamic personality. As an ENTJ, I tend to have a preference for thinking and intuition and prefer to use sensing and feeling less. My personality is complex because many of my facets were out of preference. Pressure prompted, for example; although I have a preference for judging, the facet indicates that I am motivated by pressure, like the challenge of keeping several activities running smoothly at the same time, and can successfully manage multiple activities when organized.
Working with the other peer mentors, both this and next semester, is a task I am looking forward to. As we are not all energized by other people around us, do not all focus on perceiving patterns and interrelationships, appeal to logic, or prefer decisiveness and closure, we will have to find a way to work together and make our personalities interact to have a productive and successful semester. Perhaps my procrastination habit will not be the best for team work, if I am pared with an early starting individual. However, I am sure that we can find some common ground and through the semester—even if it is just in the nick of time.
I agree that we definitely have a diverse group which helps to bring in different points of view on just about every topic. Also I'm sure whoever our partners are, we will all be able to figure out how we work best together.
ReplyDeleteGreat insight Darcy! I am excited for the potential differences in personalities when people are paired up. I think no matter what we are going to do great as a group!
ReplyDeleteI love how you make your blogs a true story. I wish I had the gift for writing like you do! It is something to be proud of. I really like your thoughts. MBTI is a very interesting topic and we all have something to learn about ourselves through it.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that differences between peer mentors will make pairing up a bit difficult, but I feel that this class will help us see past these differences and allow us to be successful.
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