I’m a very linear person: A to B to C. When I run training sessions that’s the kind of approach I take. Maybe it drives some people crazy? I find trainers who go: C, by the way A, 5, W, 57, kind of frustrating…
@Miraz that sounds like quite a talk they give. I know my mum can do that too when she goes off in tangents from the original story she's telling and sometimes she forgets the point she was trying to make.
@Miraz Agree! I have a book that I can't find right now, that explains this so well. In addition to the personality scores (animals, letters, whichever one you took) there's a deeper thinking pattern. It's two dimension graph. One diminesion is linear to non-linear and the other diminesion is abstract to concrete (could also think of it as big picture vs every little detail). That creates 4 quadrants where people usually fall: linear and concrete: non-linear and abstract; linear and abstract; and non-linear and concrete. Since reading the book and talking with people about it, I don't recall meeting someone that fell into the non-linear and concrete, but I'm sure they are out there. Sounds like your trainer is non-linear and abstract.
@MrGibber Thank you. That's very interesting and I'm looking up info around those terms now. When I used to train people I found what I called 'artists’ really hard to work with because they weren't even slightly linear. Instead they'd ask 3 questions and when I started to answer one, they would go off at a tangent to ask 3 more.