Q: What can you tell about a person by the way he walks in a crowd?A: Everything else.Photo by: Aaron Tait
Taking the time to really see the people around you will help you navigate your values – and theirs.
We’re taking the tiniest piece of DISC – how people deal with congested pedestrian traffic – the DISC of walking! – to illuminate the whole: What the people around you are trying to do and the choices they will make in pursuit of those values.
Tell me that ain’t church:
More, from a comment on Facebook:
The reasons for the four walking strategies fall out straight from the chart shown here:
The Driven want to get where they are going and they hate avoidable delay. The Incandescent want to be celebrated for having yielded (ultimately) at the same time that they want to avoid the ignominy of having yielded (eventually). The Sociable want to express their love for you while avoiding any aggressive or rancorous displays. The Cautious want to take the time to analyze the data and arrive at the perfect solution to the problem, but the dag-blamed universe won’t stop changing all the time. Every other aspect of DISC – of purposive human behavior – will map out the same way.
