{"id":3109,"date":"2020-03-12T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:19:02","slug":"book-review-surrounded-by-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/book-review-surrounded-by-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Surrounded by Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SurroundedI remember the first time I came across the ‘Colour Profiling’ trend. I’m a natural sceptic – cynical towards many things, so it seemed to me to be just another pyramid scheme, or random test like Myers Briggs or the Enneagram. However, I was persuaded by a) actual accuracy and b) the system’s focus on communications preferences rather than personality, that this is a useful tool. Working with people who communicate differently from me is tiring – and this system gave me words to articulate that, and action points to go away and work on. You can imagine my excitement, then, when I realised that this was available in a book.<\/p>\n

Have you ever felt like everyone around you is communicating ‘wrong’?<\/p>\n

Do you ever feel like people you work with are not understanding what you are saying?<\/p>\n

It may be that such a thing would never occur to you – but I’d wager that will have some resonance with what others have experienced.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by Idiots<\/em> is a simple, readable and entertaining book that takes four different kinds of human behaviour, and unpacks how we can understand ourselves and those around us better. It isn’t a Christian book, but I think it is helpful for Christian teams to work with, as it recognizes that people are both good and bad, and need to communicate with people from across a range of spectrums. I’d recommend this book as both an introduction to the Colour Profiling system, and a a useful way to think about what makes people different, particularly in terms of communication.<\/p>\n

Anyone else read it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember the first time I came across the ‘Colour Profiling’ trend. I’m a natural sceptic – cynical towards many things, so it seemed to me to be just another pyramid scheme, or random test like Myers Briggs or the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}