For those who follow BTI, you know we present insight whereby the rest of the world lacks awareness. Why and how? For decades, our prime interest has been upon why people do what they do more than what they do. As others continually focus on the what (or superficially on the whys), we value and search for the deep prompters of human behavior particularly innate ones.
What is most exciting, yet equally sobering, is that mankind can finally know, truly, what makes people tick thanks to the recent discovery of 16 DNA-driven designs. Couple these with the environmental/ nurturing (plus spiritual) factors available for gathering, and one can know virtually all there is to know about a person. Of course this to be done for the common good and by the Golden Rule.
Today we focus our attention on a revered college basketball coach who passed away over the weekend. Known by many even outside sports, he was a Hall of Fame “innovator” that won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal, and set what at the time was the record for career coaching victories in 1997. Known for his discipline, organizational skills, and his no-nonsense approach to the game of basketball, Dean Smith (#7 FEIL) was a true-blue, old-school college coach. “He graduated more than 96% of his players and taught his teams to point to the teammate who passed them the ball after a basket,” said President Obama (#13 FCIR) in his personal tribute.
“My basketball philosophy boils down to six words: play hard, play together, play smart,” Smith wrote in 2004.” (‘Playing) hard’ meant with effort, determination and courage. ‘Together’ meant unselfishly, trusting your teammates. … ‘Smart’ meant with good execution and poise, treating each possession as if it were the only one in the game.”
Knowing Smith’s inborn Brain Type, none of these statements come as any surprise for the #7 “Supervisor.” They enjoy nothing more than deciding what must be done and then putting into practice procedures that hasten the finished product. Logical, practical, industrious, capable, energetic, dependable, traditional, defensive-minded, and yes, critical, Dean Smith was ever true to his Type, and it’s what “made” him, literally, a successful basketball coach.
If interested in hoops, do you recall the 4-corner offense (actually it was a stall)? Created to keep the lead in a game, it spread the floor intending to have the defense rendered useless as they fatigued themselves scrambling in pursuit of the ever-moving ball. Leave it to conservative and Left-brained Coach Smith to popularize this tactic in the 1960s. By the 1980s, however, the Right-brained coaches (and fans) rebelled and the modern shot clock was finally instituted.
We’ve carefully followed Coach Smith for decades, and he was included in Jon Niednagel’s first printing (1992) of Your Key to Sports Success. (By the way, another person in that revolutionary book was an unknown, early teen golfer by the name of Tiger Woods who just so happened to have Coach Smith’s opposite BT, the rare #10 BCAR.) Dean Smith, like unique snowflakes we all are within each BT, had his own one-of-a-kind experiences and ideas; this made him (so to speak) variety 6,357,255 of all #7s Even among #7s, there will never be another Coach Smith.
Of course, Smith will forever be remembered as the coach who’s 1982 lineup included future NBA stars Michael Jordan (#6 BEIR), James Worthy (#6 BEIR) and Sam Perkins (#1 FEAR), who went on to beat Georgetown 63-62 for Smith’s first national title, with Jordan hitting he winning jumper and Worthy intercepted an errant Georgetown pass to seal the title Jordan said in a recent statement, “Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it.
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“For decades, our prime interest has been upon ‘why’ people do what they do more than ‘what’ they do. As others continually focus on the what (or superficially on the whys), we value and search for the deep prompters of human behavior—particularly innate ones.”
Thank you for this. While you do not have “all” the answers, I nonetheless have an appreciation for you having _many more right ones_ than the majority of people, including would-be “experts.”
In fact, I gained an even better appreciation of it tonight after someone on FB gave a shallow “analysis” of why I wasn’t great at controlling a classroom. I know much of why I’m *not* great at controlling a classroom, and it has nothing to do with a lack of “broader confidence,” per se (which the poster was trying to claim), and *everything* to do with weak executive function and poor social skills, as an autistic (likely) BCIR.
After assailing him for some very bad analytic logic regarding that topic, he called me “mean,” and I then pointed out that’s exactly what I was trying to tell him – that he was wrong and shallow about my problems being a mere lack of broad confidence, explaining to him that social skill and bad executive function are the prime factors of my lack of success, etc.
Yes, extroverts have a broader confidence than introverts. But confidence can be analyzed in many ways. FCIRs have the right to have broad confidence; BCIRs, meanwhile, have the right to lack confidence in social skills, but also have the right to much higher confidence in things such as academics, writing skills, written logic – because frankly we *are* better at such things than most FCIRs. I’ve taught and interacted with many FCIRs, and generally speaking, they are vastly inferior to me in academic concentration, logical analysis, writing, etc. Yes, they are vastly superior to me in tact, social manipulation, ability to act, vocal inflection, broad work abilities, etc. But that’s just me being LOGICAL about the matter, not being “underconfident.” If I was truly underconfident, I wouldn’t keep insisting (rightfully so) that I’m better at logic, academics, and all the other areas where I know I’m better than FCIRs. And thanks to BTs, I now know the brain-based reasons for why.
Whoops, error in paragraph three. I meant to write *I’m* vastly superior to FCIRs in academic concentration, logical analysis, writing, etc., not that they are superior to me. They definitely aren’t, that’s for sure. 🙂