The value of being able to change

The big losers of our times are those who are afraid of changes. If you cannot or don’t want to move out of your general comfort zone, then time is not on your side.

If we were to describe with one word the most important characteristic of our time, then this word would be “change”. Everything is constantly on the move and is changing at an unfathomable speed. Challenges emerge to which practically nobody has a model solution. We communicate in a different way, we have to process an enormous amount of information within seconds and we witness such developments that we could not even imagine before. All our thoughts become reality before we have even thought them. Everything around us is racing forward. 

Some of the 8 main personality types (the combinations of which make up 5184 personality profiles), are able to pick up the pace, while others struggle. One of the types which is usually referred to as “Completer” or “Finisher” got straight into an impossible situation because of the pressure for renewal.

This latter personality type has always been an advocate of stability and safety. He has always strived to have only one workplace in all his life. Future should remain predictable, foreseeable and plannable. When there was a significant, inevitable change in his conditions, he had always thoroughly prepared and planned for it and he had waited for it ready. But what should such a personality type do in a quickly shaping world which sometimes also turns upside down? Most of the time he would only freeze and wait for what’s coming in fear.

One of our recently completed surveys also comprising the “Completer” character proved that in our accelerated world it is the “Completers” who are most likely to be lost. The “Team Worker” character is the second on the risk scale: he feels like a fish out of water because of quickly transforming human relations. For him the form and quality of friendships and family ties have taken an unpredictable direction. Many times he might feel that the thing which is his essence is no longer needed. Right after them in one bunch we find the “Coordinator” and the “Resource Investigator” personality types who somehow “try to survive this, too”. Of course to be able to do so they have to re-evaluate a lot of things: above all their big ego and their own exaggerated importance will have to be revised. Although the “Resource Investigator” is an advocate of change, of course he doesn’t like being forced.

According to the conclusions drawn from our survey, there are winners as well, who profit from our world transforming at rocket speed. For instance the “Shaper” personality is excellent at adapting. Holding on in any situation being his main strength, he even enjoys the pressure for improvising all the time.

Whereas a few decades ago there were not many opportunities for the “Plant” and the “Monitor-Evaluator” characters, now they can be reassured as well that a much wider space has opened up for boosting intellectual values. One of their subtypes, the “Geek” has even become trendy: at present there are 5 such personality types among the hundred richest people of the world. Among the ten thousand richest their proportion is even higher: they claim 1782 places. No mistake, almost 18%! Every fifth top-10,000 is a “Monitor-Evaluator” or a “Plant”. Who would have thought 10-15 years ago?

The two above-mentioned types have got into their strides not only on the international scene but in Hungary as well. Soon there will be similar transformations in the Hungarian top 100, too. No matter how much they seem to dislike changes.

The eighth character, the “Implementer” simply seems to have adapted to the new circumstances as if nothing had happened. There is no transformation going on in his personality, neither positive, nor negative. His realism, free of any emotions, ensures that he has a place in the future.