The Four Personality Types: Initiators, Blockers, Supporters, and Observers
Monday, August 25th, 2008I just finished reading Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, which explores the psychological influences that can lead us to make bad decisions. One section of this book proposes that there are only four types of people in any group:
Initiators who always have ideas, propose new projects, and are optimistic about the outcomes
Blockers [...]
“Cavemen With Briefcases”
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Compared to many other species, humans have a long lifespan. Whereas geneticists can study more than 50 generations of fruit flies in a single year, the human species is more difficult to study from an evolutionary standpoint. Since a new human generation comes into being every 20 years or so, our rate of evolutionary change [...]
