PERSONALITY MODES? π
Some of us if not all of us have different modes of behavior. I have business-money mode, intellectual mode, CEO mode, socializing mode, friendship mode, home mode, and war mode. In frendship mode I’m pretty gregarious, kind and supportive. In CEO mode I’m serious but paternal. In intellectual, rigorously judicial. In money mode I’m … well … ruthlessly predatory is probably the most honest, least charitable testimony I can give. In war mode well, that’s for legal or related matters and I don’t like that persona very much even if it’s useful.
Talking to Brad today for a moment while he’s at the office (they’re having internet issues, so they’re stalled) and having a hard time controlling my humor at the difference between his friendship mode and his workplace’s clinical mode.
I wonder if there are any studies on what cultures produce different modes vs which cultures don’t. There is something interesting to be learned there. And I have a hard time imagining that someone somewhere hasn’t done this research. And if not, it that would be interesting. Because I suspect I know the answer, and I suspect I know the consequences. π