How do you deal with personalities that are different from your own in certain environments like home, work, social gatherings etc.

I stay at home and watch TV, and drink water.

Do you like plain vanilla 24/7? Kind of boring after the first day. I love diversity. Bring it on if you’re different. I’m game. Plus it’s really fucking amazing what’s out there in life.

I’m mostly attracted to humorous, intelligent and interesting people. Sure….I can adapt to any situation but…my preferences are my preferences. I am highly intuitive and can tell within a few minutes, if not sooner, if I am going to feel a blending with another. I am always right.

I deal with it the same way others deal with me I reckon. Just go with the flow!

I smile and nod my head with people. They don’t need to know I have no interest in their life.

Unless someone is very rude or too drunk to stand up straight, I simply make conversation like I would with anyone. There aren’t that many people that I find too difficult to deal with.

I love diversity, too, sometimes I can just sit back with a glass of wine listening and have a blast. My friends at work often tease me for my ‘parking lot friends’ lol

I don’t generally think of others’ personalities as something to “deal with,” but rather to recognize and interact with (or not). There are some types that I avoid, but for the most part I can find enough common ground to get by in a social setting, provided that I don’t have to keep it up for too long.

In the workplace I pretty much rely on courtesy, professionalism, and a sense of shared goals to keep relationships on an even keel.

Most of the workshops I attended over the years in my professional environment were pretty useless, but I did gain some helpful insights from one on social styles that used the Merrill & Reid model. Here’s one summation of it that I just found via search. Taken with a grain of salt, it has application beyond the workplace. I’ve done a bit better in getting along with the “amiable” types once I saw that they want to take care of the relationship first before they can attend to business. I was astonished to learn that most of the content developers I worked with at one stage of my career reacted to my editorial markups first not by saying “Thanks for catching all that stuff” but by thinking “Why doesn’t she like me?”

I would hate it if everyone around me had a personality just like mine. I think we all need interaction with others of different types in order to keep our balance and perspective.