I’m a very linear person: A to B to C. When I run training sessions that’s the kind of approach I take. Maybe it drives some people crazy? I find trainers who go: C, by the way A, 5, W, 57, kind of frustrating…
Holly Honeychurch that sounds like quite a talk they give. I know my mum can do that too when she goes off in tangents from the original story she's telling and sometimes she forgets the point she was trying to make.
Mr. Gibber Agree! I have a book that I can't find right now, that explains this so well. In addition to the personality scores (animals, letters, whichever one you took) there's a deeper thinking pattern. It's two dimension graph. One diminesion is linear to non-linear and the other diminesion is abstract to concrete (could also think of it as big picture vs every little detail). That creates 4 quadrants where people usually fall: linear and concrete: non-linear and abstract; linear and abstract; and non-linear and concrete. Since reading the book and talking with people about it, I don't recall meeting someone that fell into the non-linear and concrete, but I'm sure they are out there. Sounds like your trainer is non-linear and abstract.
Miraz Jordan @MrGibber Thank you. That's very interesting and I'm looking up info around those terms now. When I used to train people I found what I called 'artists’ really hard to work with because they weren't even slightly linear. Instead they'd ask 3 questions and when I started to answer one, they would go off at a tangent to ask 3 more.