Behavioral Styles

Our first window helped us see and understand body language. Let’s create another hole in the building and install another window of knowledge: behavioral styles. Have you ever asked yourself, “Why isn’t everyone normal like me?” Well, if you have, you are not alone. Most people try to figure out why others behave the way they do, and how to predict and handle those weird and strange ones that are so very different than “me.”

One of the first people to record and analyze the different types of behavior in people was Hippocrates. He thought it had something to do with the type of body a person had. Some people believe it’s all in the structure of a person’s face. Others rely on the place and time of birth, and still others feel ...

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