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Many years ago, I had a watershed moment in the evolution of my own personal common sense. One morning, just a few weeks before Christmas, my secretary stuck her head in my office and announced, “I want your permission to take next Tuesday off as a personal day.”
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You can tell this occurred in the 1980s, because it was still politically correct to refer to your administrative assistant as your secretary.
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Taking an odd perspective, I told myself that my response was actually a compliment to her.
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My initial system referred to them as Creators, Connectors, Commanders, and Cogetators in a rather confusing desire to have them all begin with the same letter.
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For those of you wanting to reconcile two pop psychology theories, you usually find the Peacock is the youngest child in birth order.
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Owls pop up in various places in the birth order, but it is typical to see them as the second child in a four-sibling household.
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Being a natural peacemaker, most Doves are the middle child in the sibling birth order.
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Birth order? You guessed it. The Eagle is the first-born child.
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Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, 2012, Netflix.
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Tanner, K. (2013). Understanding People. In: Common Sense. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4153-9_9
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