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2 - Profiling¹: "Who am I?" - On the benefits of self-knowledge

Who am I? Not my father!

My entire family was and is an IKEA fan. We all a g r e e d on that - the
furniture is simply practical and great. My father and I were less
unanimous when it came to assembling a piece of IKEA furniture. We
regularly argued, fell out and got into fights. And that happened quite
often, unfortunately. Why was that?

Well, my father, for example, built the IKEA cabinet according to
instructions: open the package, arrange the parts, check if something is
missing, then proceed step by step. For me, that was too boring and
stuffy. I preferred to rely on my gut feeling and intuition. That would go
much faster - and above all be more fun! Sometimes it turned out that
both ways led to the goal, but also to problems, even if they were
different.

My main point here is that if I had k n o w n or been able to assess at
the time that our disputes arose primarily from the great differences in
our respective personality structures, i.e. because we were such
different types - here the "step-by-step construction" father, there the
impetuous son - it would have saved us a lot of trouble. Instead, we
would have used our respective strengths, for example, my father
would have sorted and structured the infinite number of furniture parts
and I would have invested more time and energy in the construction
with the help of my intuition, experience and enthusiasm. And maybe I
would even have been able to reduce my impulsive urge a bit and adapt
myself to accommodate my father.

So it happened that my father not only thought, but expressed: "Oh
dear, what is going to become of this boy, he's going to be

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