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| | I chose perceptive as number three, but at some points in my life I would have placed it number one. As my life, body, and limb had depended on it! (Smile) Being perceptive in everyday life is important in understanding others and their intent. Understanding what a person is really saying, isn't always what they are saying. Also, understanding body language is an important part of being perceptive.
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| | I feel being perceptive comes naturally, and through life experiences.
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| | 4. Open Minded
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| | I feel that I am open minded. And I feel that it important for people to be open minded. The world would be a much better place to live if we were all open minded. I try to look at both sides of every issue. As the saying goes, walk a mile in my shoes. Being open minded, is experiencing life.
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Of course, his writings were a combination of what he thought his instructors and classmates wanted to read and what he wanted others to believe. His statements were self-contradicting: having someone else walk in
his
shoes made him open-minded.
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In another series of exercises McDuff was asked to rate himself according to a list of proverbs. Using a scale of 5 for "very typical of the way I act in a conflict" to 1 for "never typical of the way I act in a conflict" out of a possible score of 35, his results were: 34 for Confronting, 30 for Withdrawing, 23 for Forcing, 21 for Compromising, and 16 for Smoothing. In the exercise the "5s'' included:
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| You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
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| Come now and let us reason together.
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| A fair exchange brings no quarrel.
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