Problem Solving and Human Behavior
Types: The Burned Out Car Headlight
Human behavior and priorities and perspectives are reflected in the way
individuals address the most mundane of life’s challenges. Although the following certainly could be
subject to some variations, I think they serve as an oversimplified breakdown
of 7 general behavior types.
Do you see your type in this list?
Scenario: You
have a burned -out car headlight, so you……..
Behavior Type #1: Only
drive during daylight.
Behavior Type #2: Drive
with one headlight and/or using your high beams until you get a ticket or until
the other headlight burns out. If the
latter occurs, consider Behavior type #1.
Behavior Type #3: Ask
someone else to take your car to a mechanic.
Behavior Type #4: Take
the car to a mechanic yourself.
Behavior Type#5:
Buy a headlight bulb and ask someone else to replace the burned out one
for you.
Behavior Type #6: Buy
a headlight bulb and replace the burned out one yourself.
Behavior Type #7:
In anticipation of the second bulb burning out as well, buy two bulbs,
and replace the burned out one yourself.
Randomness
…I saw this YouTube video of a guy doing an impression of
how Homer Simpson sounds when the Simpsons in translated into French. I don’t speak French, but I think the guy
nailed it.
…Considering and planning for the needs of illegal
immigrants because they are accepted as the largest growing segment of our
population is like considering how best to nurture crabgrass as a welcome
addition to ones lawn.
…I’ve heard that there are parts of the world where
toilets drain in a different direction than they do here in America. I mean, it’s still downward, but it swirls
differently, like clockwise or whatever.
I’m actually not really sure which direction our toilets drain in, which
is kind of strange because I often watch, but I think that it would be just horrible
to all of the sudden have them drain the other way, and that just gives me one
more reason to proudly live here in America.
