Thread: If I followed your advice, I would have no friends.
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Old 08-28-2008, 02:49 AM   #86 (permalink)
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Finally I see some glimmer of understanding ...

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Originally Posted by SmartAlx View Post
I also sometimes do teach the salsa class and I can be funny in there too.
....... Yes, your nature is Type 5. You relate best to people, when they and you come together in one of your expertise areas.

In your case, salsa. Which means that you are comfortable with people when you dance salsa, teach salsa, talk salsa with them.

You DON'T relate well to people, when you don't have an expertise area in play. This ISN'T as limiting as it may sound, because a healthy Type 5 will have MANY expertise areas and therefore MANY ways to relate well to other people.

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I seriously considered taking an improvisational comedy class.
Yes, of course you did. I already alluded to this earlier. I said that for a Type 5 to be funny, he would have to learn to be funny, in the Type 5 way. Like, get a book of jokes; memorise jokes; rehearse in front of the mirror; memorise the 7 principles of highly effective joke-telling etc.

Or take an improvisational comedy class.
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